From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 13 02:37:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA01008 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 02:37:57 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA00998 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 02:37:51 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id XAA07483; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 23:35:36 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id XAA29201; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 23:35:36 -0800 Message-Id: <199503130735.XAA29201@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Russell L. Carter" cc: current@FreeBSD.org, starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu Subject: Re: Things are looking up :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Mar 95 17:06:30 PST." <199503130106.RAA05211@geli.clusternet> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 23:35:34 -0800 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >And I just built the world in 5 hours, much improved from the 11+ of >the last weeks. Thanks guys! Here's the ouput from time make world: > > 19459.88 real 13019.40 user 3573.39 sys > >ncr bonnie benchmark performance is possibly mending a bit, too: > > -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- >Sys Date MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU >021095 100 3145 96.0 3832 30.9 1630 21.0 3230 95.2 4231 36.8 81.0 7.0 >030195 100 2563 91.2 3410 35.3 1513 25.5 2812 88.8 3735 39.4 70.7 8.2 >030395 100 2438 83.4 3142 30.2 1466 23.6 2916 91.0 3716 38.6 62.7 7.1 >030495 100 2275 84.0 2609 27.3 1400 26.1 2693 88.0 3538 41.6 63.1 7.4 >031295 100 2346 86.8 2924 33.4 1491 28.0 2761 90.2 3877 45.4 67.6 7.7 > >Things are definitely a lot mellower in my drive bays now that the chatterbug >is vanquished. It's hard to overstate how appreciative I am... Thanks. Everyone should change their minfree on their filesystems to 8%. In our current code, 5% will cause the system to use 'space' optimization all the time which is very CPU intensive. Use the command "tunefs -m 8 /dev/r..." on your (unmounted) filesystems to change it. -DG