Fedoras' poor performance in test

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:21:27PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:14:02PM +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>  
>  > > Rawhide has lots of debugging turned on in various places so it is not 
>  > > suitable for benchmarking until this is removed. Target beta or the final 
>  > > release.
>  > 


> 
> To the best of my knowledge, none of the other popular distros enable
> the level of debugging we do in the Fedora kernel.  There's a slightly dated
> list detailing the extent of what we enable at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelDebugStrategy


For what it's worth, in the comments, many people calmly (of course,
there were a few angry ones) about this--that Fedora, unlike the others
tested, has more debugging code in Rawhide. 

The best thing to do--for someone who had the time and inclination,
would be to get the phoronix test suite and run it using F11 or perhaps
a debugged F12 if they have the ability to redo it, and run it against
either of the other two. (I'd go for Ubuntu, since it's on one CD.)


However, I think it's the proverbial tempest in a teapot--I haven't
seeen any mention of it on the forums.  It's probably one of those
things that excites people for a day, but is unlikely to turn the distro
hoppers away from trying F12 when it comes out. 


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Scott Robbins
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