Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:49 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions Message-ID: <a969fbd10611131351o3e47869p3b9abc9f586475c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061113212557.GB53818@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4558C9E4.6050008@ccstores.com> <20061113212557.GB53818@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to ensure full update-ness? On 11/13/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients > > that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous > > version (5.XX). > > > > I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance > > hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients. > > > > I've seen the "trolls" of past about speed and previous versions, and I > > would really be interested to hear the actual truth about 6.XX speed. > > It is my understanding that 6.XX is more optimized for multi-processors, > > and that for a single processor, 5.XX (or even 4.XX) outperforms 6.XX. > > > > Would someone please outline the choices/drawbacks/concerns of even > > considering going back a series? > > 6.x is 5.x with performance bottlenecks fixed. This applies both to > UP and SMP systems. Therefore it's pretty surprising that you're > seeing a slowdown between 5.x and 6.x, so you should try to look into > exactly why your system seems to be running slower. Perhaps it's just > a simple misconfiguration, or related to some other change you made at > the same time as you updated. > > Kris > > >
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