[fossdd]

> if you want to submit benchmarks, or you want to report bugs, an important or sometimes a mandatory component is to provide compilation flags

On all open-source distros, you can look into your distro's source and check their compile flags.

[crabbone]

The idea here is more that you need to adjust these flags for the benchmark to make sense.

Take fore example the aforementioned block size. Say, you have a storage with 4x block size of the one used by PostgreSQL. If you run a benchmark over such a storage, you'll have insane write amplification. Nobody will consider results of such a "benchmark" because that's simply a misconfiguration of the program you are trying to measure.

More generally, Linux distros will tend to compile distributed binaries with "safe" defaults s.t. run on most h/w users can have, and this means optimizing for the lowest common denominator. Looping back to PostgreSQL, the default for block size was for a long time 4k, and iirc today it's 8k. This is fine, if we are talking about plain SSD / HDD, but with enterprise SDS, these are "rookie numbers", even the maximum supported by PosgreSQL (32k) is still a "rookie number", but it's still four times better than the default!