Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:23:34 -0500 From: Russell Meek <russell@russellmeek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance Message-ID: <4384DDD6.3020905@russellmeek.net> In-Reply-To: <438452DF.5010004@buc.com.ua> References: <4383561C.30900@buc.com.ua> <20051122212111.GA72725@xor.obsecurity.org> <438452DF.5010004@buc.com.ua>
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Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: > Kris, > > thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, > I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. > Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched > to FreeBSD because of better performance especially when I work in X. > About the port set: what do you mean under "> upgrading your ports > properly"? I've downloaded the ports.tar.gz (about 30M) and untarred > it to /usr/ports. what else? > > Dmytro > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" Dmytro, Sorry the debug -g option did not help. I have only noticed increased speed with 6 vs 5.4, but then again I am not using X, I use FreeBSD only for servers. I noticed a slight lag at first and was not using the SCHED_ULE scheduler, but the 4BSD. Removing debug -g and recompiling my kernel pretty much solved that. Thanks, Russell
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