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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 20:51:15 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
Message-ID:  <20050525035115.GA43824@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4293F4D9.90204@incubus.de>
References:  <20050523211307.GA36552@xor.obsecurity.org> <42924949.1070902@incubus.de> <200505242141.38289.max@love2party.net> <42938C2E.6020301@incubus.de> <20050524201942.GA28257@xor.obsecurity.org> <42938D40.1050502@incubus.de> <20050524202647.GA28322@xor.obsecurity.org> <4293A18F.6080200@incubus.de> <20050524221454.GA56421@xor.obsecurity.org> <4293F4D9.90204@incubus.de>

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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:45:29AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >OK, thanks for confirming.  The next step is for you to try 6.0 with
> >debug.mpsafevfs=3D1 on a machine that exhibits the problem under 5.4, so
> >we can test whether the problem is caused by VFS being under Giant on
> >5.4.
>=20
> I have now built 6.0-current from yesterday's source, verified that=20
> debug.mpsafevfs=3D1, and unpacked the firefox source.
> Unfortunately your hypothesis didn't hold.  In fact, it's a lot worse=20
> than on 5.4-STABLE.  Plus, even operations like bulk-rm'ing the unpacked=
=20
> firefox tree make X11 crawl and stutter, something that didn't have any=
=20
> observable effect on 5.4-STABLE.  Maybe the dmesg output is of some help:
>=20
>=20
> Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Wed May 25 05:00:48 CEST 2005
>     root@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.

*Ahem*

Kris

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