Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=trying-8-bsds&num=2

I wonder what happened in his case. I can tell he's re-using the same box 
and drive from his FreeBSD install, but I've done that many times and 
never had a problem (other than being annoyed at 'dk' devices showing up). 
I just wipe the disk and start over. 

In his case, the install locks up during the kernel initialization. From 
the looks of the dmesg/ring-buffer he's screenshotting, I'd say he's never 
getting to init. 

Phoronix is a pretty Linux-centric site. I have some suspicions is just a 
way for him to say "Aww, look, half the benchmarks I setup for 
specifically for Linux in the Phoronix testing suite don't work. BSD must 
really suck, I guess." Then it gives the kids on slashdot somewhere to 
link when they need to say "BSD is dead/sucks". 

I've *have* been noting that Linux's I/O performance edge in the last 
couple years seems to be really sliding in comparison to FreeBSD. It's 
still "kinda better" but it used to be "categorically WAY better". I'm not 
sure if that's more optimization happening in BSD land, or more suck 
leaking into Linux-land. I do a lot of testing using 'fio' and other 
benchmark tools and despite all the constant Linux hype of the 
Next-Great-IO-Scheduler, it's position in the high speed I/O peloton is, 
if anything, sliding (esp versus FreeBSD ZFS and DragonFly BSD + HAMMER). 
Of course, it's all relative to what and how you test. YMMV.

Nonetheless it pains me to see NetBSD shown in such a bad light.

-Swift