From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 2: 3:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDB614E6C for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 02:03:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02825; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:03:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05519; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:03:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990329120259.00a9ebc0@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:02:59 +0200 To: "Meissner, Norbert" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: 3.1 release slow In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11.45 29/03/99 +0200, you wrote: >linux systems are much faster in the bonnie benchmark. i think that this is >because linux isn't writing in sync on the hd. on the other side bonnie >shows that Freebsd 3.1 FS is slower than 2.2.8. I'm sure that the >softupdates are turned on because mount tells me about 30K synced and 150K >asynced writes. The Machine is a P166 with 128MB RAM. Softupdates are turned on and applied to the filesystem[s] only if mount says it, i.e.: /dev/da0s1e on /usr (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 2 async 972) The kernel must be compiled with "options SOFTUPDATES" and you must apply them manually to the filesystem[s]. Compile it with optimizations turned on, because by default FreeBSD's kernels aren't optimized. Also, there are other options that you may use to enhance FreeBSD's performance. For example, consider using the "noatime" option mounting the filesytem[s]; do a "man mount". --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - System Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message