From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 12:04:39 2005 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 CBDDB16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:04:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C240843D4C for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:04:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cguttesen@yahoo.dk) Received: (qmail 93216 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Jan 2005 12:04:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20050130120437.93214.qmail@web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.149.113.94] by web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:04:37 CET Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:04:37 +0100 (CET) From: Claus Guttesen To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion 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, 30 Jan 2005 12:04:39 -0000 Hi. I'm about to replace our internal nfs- and samba-server with a newer Dell 2850 dual nocona @ 3.2 GHz and 4 GB RAM and 5 SCSI-disks in RAID 5. Inspirred by the recent performance-discussions I'd like to do my own testing regarding nfs and samba, and would like to add some tests like bonnie to aid the dissussion on this list and to have some valid points in a why-FreeBSD-and-not-Linux discussion at work (which is healthy from time to time). I haven't installed linux for some years now, and do not have a good feeling how the 2.6 kernel does regarding smp, disk-io, network etc. compared to FreeBSD. I want to know, how FreeBSD stacks up regarding performance, ease of installation/updating /upgrading compared to primarily Linux and to some degree NetBSD. My plan is to start with FreeBSD 4.11, reinstall 5.3 (release), upgrade to 5.3 stable, then move to 6.0 current, install a linux-distro, and possibly install NetBSD 2.0. I will apply the following optimizations in /etc/make.conf (when applicable): march=nocona CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops HTT will be disabled in BIOS. 4.11 will be the i386-port (choosing is not difficult here ;-) and UFS1, 5.3 and 6.0 will be the amd64-port and UFS2. The amd64-port will also apply to Linux/NetBSD. I want to limit my testing to nfs- and samba-networking, some web-benchmarking, disk-io and network-io. I haven't spent much time on the last two items so any small howto, what ports to install, pre-written scripts etc. would be appreciated. What Linux-distro is most BSD-like? Fumbled with Gentoo where portage seems to be a pretty strong tool. I'm planning to use ReiserFS. regards Claus