Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 Benchmarks: Is Ubuntu Getting Slower?

NT

Quoting: ...it would be better to call Ubuntu 7.10 the Gooey Gibbon, 8.04 the Hungover Heron, and 8.10 the Idling Ibex.

heee....

The full paragraph quote is

Quoting:A number of significant kernel changes had gone on between these Ubuntu Linux releases including the Completely Fair Scheduler, the SLUB allocator, tickless kernel support, etc. We had also repeated many of these tests to confirm we were not experiencing a performance fluke or other issue (even though the Phoronix Test Suite carries out each test in a completely automated and repeatable fashion) but nothing had changed. Ubuntu 7.04 was certainly the Feisty Fawn for performance, but based upon these results perhaps it would be better to call Ubuntu 7.10 the Gooey Gibbon, 8.04 the Hungover Heron, and 8.10 the Idling Ibex.

But then again (as those "less Ubuntuphiles" might add), how much of a performance-magnitude were Drudgy Drake, Erratic Eft and Flakey ("Feisty") Fawn really so much better ????

vainrveenr, I've read your comment 5 times, and I still cant make out what your asking.

What I'd like to see is a comparable test for other distro's. Is it an Ubuntu specific problem or is it a wider upstream phenomenon?

If it is an upstream problem, the ramifications are larger than if the Ubuntu team just needs to brush up on lean packaging...

New Technology strikes again!

@vv, You might wish to re-review the performance comparison charts. In some cases, Ubuntu 7.04 is close to twice as fast as 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10. Maybe the Ubuntu slowdown is due to increasing codebloat a.k.a., featuritis sickness, like the old infamous M$Winblown apps.

IIRC, a Really Bad Thing about Feisty 7.04 and earlier was that these Ubuntu versions had variably flakey support for various hardware devices. If the increasing slowness of Ubuntu versions is not solely due to upstream problems as r_a_trip mentions, then the vastly increased driverspace might indirectly account for some of the performance hits with the more current Ubuntus. .......... Just a thought.

Ubuntu is pulling from Debian, yes. However they are a full fledged distro on their own rights. If they are shipping buggy packages, that is not on Debian, especially considering they are pulling from unstable and expiremental. That stuff comes with a big warning label. That falls firmly on Ubuntu's head and their insistance on shipping every 6 months regardless. Asking debian to guarantee things that havent even made it to the testing branch is just silly.