From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 4 6:17:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422B137B400; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1392043E65; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g84DHLJR017752; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:17:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g84DHKEC017751; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:17:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:17:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: Buffer cache fix gave major speedup Message-ID: <20020904151720.A17724@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:04:55AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:04:55AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On the DS20 I have here, Peter's fix to basically enable the buffer cache > gave me about a 38% performance increase for a buildworld -j 2 on current: WOW! That makes Alpha quite a bit faster than before. Buildworlds always felt slow on Alpha to me. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message