From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 03:14:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5499C16A4B3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from walter.dfmm.org (walter.dfmm.org [209.151.233.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C01243FBF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-performance@dfmm.org) Received: (qmail 7758 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Oct 2003 11:14:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Oct 2003 11:14:27 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:14:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Stone X-X-Sender: jason@walter To: Felix von Leitner In-Reply-To: <20031024142345.GA9997@codeblau.de> Message-ID: <20031024155706.B8440@walter> References: <20031024142345.GA9997@codeblau.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help me tune FreeBSD for bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:14:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Several people have asked me to re-run my benchmarks after the kernels > have been properly tuned. > > To ensure a fair test, I will ask each kernel team to send me a list of > things to do to a GENERIC kernel to optimize it for optimal performance > on my benchmarks. Well, this might be kind of obvious, but "man tuning" Also, since freebsd-4 is still the official -stable release, you should definitely benchmark 4.8 or 4-stable (cvs tag RELENG_4). (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/handbook/current-stable.html) Also, since -current is such a moving target (on all the bsd's), you should publish the exact date at which you cvsup'ed along with your results. Just saying 5-current isn't very descriptive, as major major changes can take place on that branch from one day to the next. -Jason -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freud himself was a bit of a cold fish, and one cannot avoid the suspicion that he was insufficiently fondled when he was an infant. -- Ashley Montagu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: See https://private.idealab.com/public/jason/jason.gpg iD8DBQE/m6yTswXMWWtptckRAqCkAKCIIFmKaA/WtKmLthIWcEhTGKnW5ACfT/d6 aV4ZKZDI7jzhWzFClizGEjY= =4Ogh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----