From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 28 21:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5DD37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32EB43E09 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5T4e6T4009322; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.4/8.12.3/Submit) id g5T4e6EU009321; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200206290440.g5T4e6EU009321@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer , "Long, Scott" Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: something funny with soft updates? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :maybe, but whan I first committed soft updates, I got between 10 and 15 % :improvements in times.. Here is what I get on -STABLE, building the world. So my earlier statement about it not making a big difference was wrong :-) These are on a DELL2550 with /usr/src and /usr/obj on a single SCSI drive (/usr/src on a 2G partition, /usr/obj on a 2G partition). cd /usr/src mv ~dillon/bwtest.out ~dillon/bwtest.out.bak ( /usr/bin/time -l make -j 5 buildworld ) >>& ~dillon/bwtest.out ( /usr/bin/time -l make -j 5 buildworld ) >>& ~dillon/bwtest.out ( /usr/bin/time -l make -j 5 buildworld ) >>& ~dillon/bwtest.out fgrep user ~dillon/bwtest.out | fgrep real | fgrep sys | fgrep . | \ fgrep -v .c > XXX test1# cat x1 WITH SOFTUPDATES 1497.09 real 1397.98 user 612.06 sys 1500.12 real 1399.33 user 609.79 sys 1494.82 real 1398.30 user 612.46 sys test1# cat x2 WITHOUT SOFTUPDATES (normal ufs mount) 2449.14 real 1401.34 user 625.54 sys 2389.75 real 1400.38 user 629.86 sys 2358.82 real 1403.26 user 624.93 sys I'll try -current next. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message