Re: [gentoo-performance] performance testing

[Guillaume Ceccarelli]

I have to agree with Daniel here. This list is very low traffic. If you want
to reach a broad part of the gentoo community, I think the Gentoo forums
could be the way to go. ( http://forums.gentoo.org ). As for the performance
tests, I don't think either that the server world would give you a lot of
differences in terms of performance whether you're using Gentoo or a popular
server-oriented binary distro.

Just my 2 cents...

On 4/29/07, Daniel Armyr <daniel.armyr@××××.se> wrote:
>
> > Quite frankly, I'd be surprised if a Gentoo server was significantly
> > faster than a CentOS 5 (RHEL 5 clone) server on a high-intensity
> > server workload. But I have tried a lot of distros for scientific
> > workstations, and Gentoo does seem to have an advantage there.
>
> I would have to agree. The performance gains in Gentoo tend to (In the
> Real World(tm) ) come from not having a bunch of crap instaled an
> running that hogs memory rather than from using a particular set of
> optimizing flags. Further, real-word servers ten to be built with some
> performance margin in order to handle load spikes, so a few percent
> here and there wouldn't really be measurable, assuming you compare to a
> system that isn't bloated.
>
> Further,this list has averaged at about one post per month since around
> 2003 when I joined, so don't expect to gett too many replies from here.
>
> --DA
>
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