From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 25 12:51: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEACE37B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 12:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4PJp1b42293; Fri, 25 May 2001 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200105251951.f4PJp1b42293@earth.backplane.com> To: Dave Hayes Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was Re: technical comparison) References: <200105250638.XAA06408@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Jordan Hubbard writes: :> Erm, folks? Can anyone please tell me what this has to do with :> freebsd-hackers any longer? : :While the thread has diverged from it's original intent, there is :something related I consider to be a more interesting topic. If it's :still not appropriate for hackers, please let me know. : :When people are doing benchmarks, I noted that there are -lots- of :little sysctl tweaks or kernel tweaks that tend to make a big :difference in the results. : :I know it is possible to define some sort of abstraction that uniquely :specifies a complete (and/or relevant) set of these tweaks when :comparing benchmarks. Does this already exist, and if not, how hard :would it be to catalog every single relavent tunable parameter in a :FreeBSD system? :------ :Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org :>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Well, it's been done before. The problem is that the landscape changes every time we do a new release. I did a 'security' man page a while ago (which is still mostly relevant). I suppose I could do a 'performance' man page. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message