Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:18:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> Cc: le@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: vinum, 5.x performance, ... (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree) Message-ID: <20051107111800.e199ndcxa8s0c444@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <ZhqaDxv9wJ@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <op.szszvnn89aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <ZhqaDxv9wJ@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
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Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> wrote: > Jeremy Messenger schrieb:, > >> But, we will accept any patch that fix for FreeBSD 4.x as long it doesn't >> break with FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. There is no reason to keep FreeBSD >> 4.x for desktop. > > Well well, hold the horses .... > There are still a dozens regression in 5.x > - vimum/gvinum ist not working with 4.x volumes Is this also true for 6.0? If yes, does Lukas know about it? > - and performaces is a nightmare on atapi harddisks AFAIR 4.x enables the write cache (bad if there's a power failure in the soft-updates case, since without native command queueing the drivers may reorder writes witout the possibility to notify soft-updates about it), while 5+ disables it. Enable it in loader.conf and your performance should change. > - em0 gigabit ethernet solws down to 40kb/s I think this is fixed in 6.0. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
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