From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 23 15: 9: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0609C37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta01.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E64C43F85 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:08:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from pootah.ozemail.com.au ([63.60.233.201]) by mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20030323230854.EVLL19002.mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au@pootah.ozemail.com.au>; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:08:54 +1100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030323162817.02755660@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:49:19 +1100 To: Kirk Strauser From: Rob B Subject: Re: Tuning my PC64 (heh!) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <87znnoynjy.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:31 PM 22/03/03, Kirk Strauser sent this up the stick: >A friend gave me a PC64 system that I'm using as a firewall (running >-STABLE). I have a couple of quick questions: Cool, I have one of these as well :) >1) The system has 2MB of L2 cache. Would bumping that to 8MB make a >noticeable difference on, say, a make buildworld? Potentially ... but I doubt it's worth the cost IIRC cache chips for these babies are hideously expensive. >2) I've installed a Tekram DC-390f U/W SCSI card, and two U/W drives: a 4GB >IBM and a 9GB IBM. Throughput is dismal, to say the least: > > > >Is there some "DONT_MAKE_SMALL_WRITES_CRAWL" setting that I've missed >somewhere? Running nightly backups on the machine takes forever. I really >don't expect miracles from the little fellow, but still... Can't help here .... my Cabriolet is out of action at the moment, so I'm reinstalling the OS on it. cheers, Rob -- You, you, you shouldn't, you shouldn't traumatize women with sexual intercourse. I should know, I'm a medieval doctor, I own a moat! This is random quote 1246 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message