From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 18:39:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376BD16A400 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marsgmiro@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6D713C44C for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:39:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marsgmiro@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so248930nze for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 11:39:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kJ4jvY220pNUujckmj2Uora8JLxgsfnQNGJ4Uol407cS+2tK8nATLv9Ip3jHb7wHvHsR0ibEhwkn6n9MK70CKUqDt6+AbvjOIVO5P1EJsEO2UO60WBr5yfEzexfgpVJL1v8ThCHG1hGSGxzJA5ckl24gTfhYCjAdj0nhL7lAoxY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kY7GyLYfYRzDGxJStaxqocw2QUmC+YjePhK6cKw22rU433f+olOyvzxz/KaB0Thwm/Ab/V3Z95yn1KijZ6jbxjgfxxn0bsMDLKajbyagg8keh4IjPJS3nyOteWs863TfA0WX94gSEXA4z72gXcTjfOeC79YIwz/stKsRN/TmlRY= Received: by 10.114.130.1 with SMTP id c1mr328586wad.1178131195635; Wed, 02 May 2007 11:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.16 with HTTP; Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <28edec3c0705021139h45c785c2s915941c0afb93b5d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 02:39:55 +0800 From: "Mars G. Miro" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:39:57 -0000 Greetz, I got my hands on a SunFire x4600. This is a dual-core 8-way Opteron (dmesg shows 16 CPUs) w/c has 32G RAM. FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 runs fine on it despite: - 'reboot' doesnt work, machine just hangs in there. - front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da ports at da back. I've read a lot of threads in da past (and da BSDCan 2006 paper) regarding mfs on /usr/src and /usr/obj to speed up buildworlds, unfortunately it doesnt seem to improve things. I've tried both a malloc and swap based async non-softupdates mfs (and rebooted da box every after) but my buildworld speeds seem to be just da same as I do it on da MPT SAS disk w/c is just around ~18mins. Yeah, i know there's da tmpfs project but I was just wondering if I may have missed somthing in my mfs adventures. Thanks ;-) cheers mars