From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 21:23:43 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 58FCE16A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:23:43 +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 8C3CC43D53 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:23:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from russell@russellmeek.net) Received: (qmail 31987 invoked by uid 89); 23 Nov 2005 21:23:41 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 30729, pid: 31088, t: 0.6131s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.87.1/m:34/d:1188 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 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; 23 Nov 2005 21:23:41 -0000 Message-ID: <4384DDD6.3020905@russellmeek.net> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:23:34 -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> <438452DF.5010004@buc.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <438452DF.5010004@buc.com.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:23:43 -0000 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