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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to |
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> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared |
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> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? |
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First things first ... What do you mean by "speed". Benchmarking is a |
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very complicated job ;) Do you mean boot time, network bandwidth, HDD |
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bandwidth, number crunching, graphics, ...? What application(s)? What |
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data volume? ... |
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MHO: never trust benchmarks unless you do them and you know what you |
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are doing ;) Even then ... be careful ;) |
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If you decide to run some benchmarks, take into account that Gentoo |
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has so many USE flags ... youo might not use one of those flags ... |
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but the other distros do use them. Same applies to compiler flags so |
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... would it be a fair comparison ? ;) |
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Last, but not least ... Imagine Gentoo is "faster" ... would compile |
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time be worth it? IOW: installing a precompiled distro (like RHEL, |
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SLES, ...) can about 30 - 60 minutes. Gentoo can take 24 hours (or |
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more ... or less, depending on what you install, your experience, |
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...). Now imagine speed up is 0.1% ... is it worth it? |
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> Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Gentoo. Do any |
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> other large corps run it that we know of? |
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Sorry, can't be of any help here :( |
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> I googled a bit but couldn't find anything. Maybe my search terms |
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> wasn't good enough. |
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> Links would be nice. |
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MHO |
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Rafa |
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