From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 20:20:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DEE16A41C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:20:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from lakecmmtao04.coxmail.com (lakecmmtao04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A4843D48 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:20:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dns1 ([64.58.171.82]) by lakecmmtao04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20050602202031.JNKA3139.lakecmmtao04.coxmail.com@dns1>; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:20:31 -0400 From: Vizion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:16:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506022217.13628.vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> In-Reply-To: <200506022217.13628.vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506021316.12109.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: Vittorio De Martino Subject: Re: Tuning FreBSD with specific applications X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:20:32 -0000 On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:17, the author Vittorio De Martino contributed to the dialogue on- Tuning FreBSD with specific applications: >First of all: >I DO NOT WANT TO START A FLAME!!!!!!!!! > >On my laptop I've being using linux for some years now and "landed" at last > to the gentoo distribution which I tuned for working with the statistical > software R and the bunch of TeX programs such as latex, pdflatex, context > and the likes (this absorb 95% of my activity on the linux box). >The main action I took with gentoo was to compile everything from scratch > for my pc hardware, limiting the use of X & kde using all the above > mentioned software prevailingly in a simple console. > >Now in a partition of the same laptop I installed freebsd 5.4, set >softupdates, dma=1, and the same pieces of software as those I had installed >under linux using the ports, therefore, compiling everything for my pc >hardware, but, owing to my poor knowledge of Freebsd I'm experiencing some >problems. > >In a nutshell I prepared the following test files: > >1) a ConTeXt file full of long (useless) chapters and pictures to run with >texexec; >2) An R program which reads a long text file, puts the data in dataframes, >then loops to accomplish many repetitive mathematical calculations. > >Now running the test files in a console linux turns out to be roughly > 20-25% faster than freebsd. Particulary slow results the loop phase of the > R source code that while running slows down and seems to clog in the end. > The slowing down is also perceptible under linux but not at the same level. > >Admiring the "ordered and unitary layout" of freebsd, the logical way of >setting it up, the richness of applications, I would like to line the >freebsd installation up to the linux one, improving its performance at most, >not necessarily making it faster than linux. > >How could I obtain those improvements? What could I do to speed those > programs under freebsd? > here is a start: www.lyris.com/products/listmanager/ fox_pro/tuning_freebsd.pdf - David >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- 40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters. English Owner & Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus. Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing May/June bound for Europe via Panama Canal.