Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:05:10 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh "config KERNEL" etc Message-ID: <4DD6AD56.3080608@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <1340366482.609480.1305845624994.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <1340366482.609480.1305845624994.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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On 05/19/11 18:53, Rick Macklem wrote: >> On 05/14/11 20:05, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few >>> minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at >>> "config GENERIC", including rebuilding the NFS related modules. >>> >>> rick >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> Sensational! With this update, I finally get NFS client performance >> as good as (or better than) 7.x, and I have a warm, fuzzy feeling >> about 8.x at last. (Except for SCHED_ULE, which gives terrible >> performance on a single-core machine with a compute-bound process >> running in the background.) Thanks! -- George Mitchell >> > There's a weird (and you need to have a weird sense of humour to > enjoy it) flick called "Stranger than Paradise". > > Anyhow, the above sounds like good news, although the commit it > was related to should have had no effect on perf, from what I can > see. > > Assuming that you are using the regular 8.n client (and not the new > one), there have been some commits related to krpc bugs that could have > fixed cases which would have caused poor perf., although all of those > (except one where a client would hang on a TCP reconnect attempt) are in > 8.2. > > So, happy to hear it works for you now, but have no idea why;-) rick Full disclosure: I was upgrading from 8.2-PRERELEASE, so it might well have been some earlier change instead of this one. -- George > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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