From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 09:44:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1984C16A45E for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 09:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from postman.atlantis.dp.ua (postman.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17EE543D46 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 09:44:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from smtp.atlantis.dp.ua (smtp.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.46.231]) by postman.atlantis.dp.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4F9hVlU044170; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:43:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:43:31 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov To: Jonathan Noack In-Reply-To: <4465843E.9070108@alumni.rice.edu> Message-ID: <20060515123801.B36421@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <20060427160536.M96305@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060427181226.GA66431@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060428122448.K57436@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060428182818.GA10410@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060512161836.R75964@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060513020051.GB18438@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060513084236.W74146@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <4465843E.9070108@alumni.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: RELENG_4 -> 5 -> 6: significant performance regression X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:44:36 -0000 Hello! On Sat, 13 May 2006, Jonathan Noack wrote: > Have you tried putting I586_CPU in there? See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020696.html. Thanks for suggestion. I've just tried it, performance difference is indistinguishable. > Also, use the link0 option with your fxp cards if they support it. See > the fxp(4) man page for more info. Here is an example /etc/rc.conf entry: > ifconfig_fxp0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx link0" Well, I'm aware of this feature. I'm just evaluating performance of RELENG_6 systems on uniprocessor i386 system, and (for now) it's significantly worse than under RELENG_4. So I've used fxp just for comparison (and to rule out possible specific regression in rl NIC driver), not for anything more serious. > Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE