From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 22:38:18 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 10DDC16A428 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:38:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from russell@russellmeek.net) Received: from a.mx.russellmeek.net (91.59.118.70.cfl.res.rr.com [70.118.59.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0537143D49 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from russell@russellmeek.net) Received: (qmail 21384 invoked by uid 89); 22 Nov 2005 22:38:02 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 20130, pid: 20671, t: 1.2770s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.87.1/m:34/d:1180 spam: 3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on prometheus.russellmeek.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.8.104?) (russell@russellmeek.net@64.212.109.78) by a.mx.russellmeek.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 22 Nov 2005 22:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <43839DC0.8040906@russellmeek.net> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:37:52 -0500 From: Russell Meek User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4383561C.30900@buc.com.ua> <20051122212111.GA72725@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051122212111.GA72725@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:38:18 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:32:12PM +0000, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>Maybe it's my own opinion but I've discovered that 6.0 kernel is much >>slower than 5.4, I mean GENERIC in both cases. >> >> > >It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements >that led you to conclude this. FreeBSD 6.0 is much faster than >FreeBSD 5.4 in my measurements, especially in the area of filesystem >performance. > > > >>And, as well, 6.0 works >>right with the set of ports come with it in distribution inly. Nearly >>any new port can not assemble with differnent errors, mostly like: "The >>version of library XXX is installed, it's conflict with XXX-1, please do >>pkg_delete, and pkg_add then". But after than nearly nothing works. >> >> > >This is not a FreeBSD 6.0 problem, it indicates that you aren't >upgrading your ports properly. > >Look into the portupgrade tool, and if you have specific problems with >using it, then post specific questions. > >Kris > > Dmytro, The stock Generic Kernel for 6.0-Release has debugging features which according to the kernel developement team where left in during release. Try to recompile the Generic Kernel with the option debug -g commented out and see if that helps with the speed issues you have encountered. Thanks, Russell