From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 08:32:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB609106564A for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 08:32:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D428FC1E for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 08:32:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4A8Wdhg027162; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:32:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.5.5 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk m4A8Wdhg027162 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=200708; t=1210408360; bh=68a4ujdTUsDNBW +yBPZ3tyycxGjzmQ2vfyDWDbh1rpo=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version: To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc:Content-Type: Date:From:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Mime-Version:References:To; z=Mes sage-ID:=20<48255D9F.50003@infracaninophile.co.uk>|Date:=20Sat,=201 0=20May=202008=2009:32:31=20+0100|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman=20|Organization:=20Infracaninophile|User-A gent:=20Thunderbird=202.0.0.14=20(X11/20080503)|MIME-Version:=201.0 |To:=20Wojciech=20Puchar=20|CC:=20D Ave=20,=20=0D=0A=20'User=20Questions'=20 |Subject:=20Re:=20FBSD=206.2=20Xeon= 202.4ghz=20CPU=20and=20high=20load|References:=20<482473B7.7070707@ pixelhammer.com>=20<48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk>=20<200 80509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>=20<4824CEE7.6070605@inf racaninophile.co.uk>=20<20080510090439.U58698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia. pl>=20<48254EAB.3030103@infracaninophile.co.uk>=20<20080510094220.T 58841@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>|In-Reply-To:=20<20080510094220.T5884 1@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>|X-Enigmail-Version:=200.95.6|Content-Typ e:=20multipart/signed=3B=20micalg=3Dpgp-sha256=3B=0D=0A=20protocol= 3D"application/pgp-signature"=3B=0D=0A=20boundary=3D"------------en ig82E1D9B41993C6E2F9E87217"; b=MNCr6+BayBnTFaRjf1sT1OsOb9NJuXKinL5B xgx72kn86zck1jHcirGA/iSbrp8VMtBSiizsFwFViSG2I2DYLB+wsSzFO5fdAlnxJg5 4+7w7G3mJ7zcGg7hERmXM2e/ekzBNdq+kRiVVN4cdX5c8LGwo+MX7FbP4PiMsdZr5MG w= Message-ID: <48255D9F.50003@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:32:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080503) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4824CEE7.6070605@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080510090439.U58698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48254EAB.3030103@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080510094220.T58841@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080510094220.T58841@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig82E1D9B41993C6E2F9E87217" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sat, 10 May 2008 09:32:40 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.93, clamav-milter version 0.93 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VERIFIED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: DAve , 'User Questions' Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load 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: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:32:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig82E1D9B41993C6E2F9E87217 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is= =2E >> >> My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically = has >> a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/=20 >> application >=20 > so why you need unix at all? :) At the risk of belabouring the obvious: i) I like the price. Free. ii) I like the operating environment -- CLIs aren't to everyone's taste= , but I find they give me the freedom to do what I want without havin= g to jump through a whole lot of hoops. iii) I like the efficiency of the OS -- you get that much more performan= ce out of every machine it's like having additional servers for free. = =20 > try as simple and stupid thing under load >=20 > cat /dev/zero >somefile (on big partition) >=20 > on 6.* and 7.* and compare both cases. >=20 > :) I thought you were pillorying synthetic benchmarks upthread? Filling up a partition with a file of zeros is pretty unlikely as a real-world task.= I wouldn't be too disappointed if that didn't run as fast as it possibly could, although I would be distinctly peeved if doing that on a loaded server took up more of the system resources than it had any right or justification to do, to the detriment of anything else running on that machine. 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