Hi Jeff, I tried your patch. Ran a buildkernel, timed. Recompiled kernel including your patch, rebooted and reran. Please find results below.
w/o patch hulk# time make -j8 buildkernel 837.808u 138.167s 10:28.96 155.1% 6349+1349k 2873+7780io 303pf+0w w patch hulk# time make -j8 buildkernel 838.554u 168.316s 10:52.10 154.4% 6263+1332k 6489+7791io 11pf+0w I only understand the 10:52 seconds thing, but it looks like it's stressing less and still getting things done. System is AMD Athlon X264 2.2Ghz Kernel is GENERIC. hulk# uname -a FreeBSD hulk.superhero.nl 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sun Nov 4 20:30:23 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I see you have a new patch. Could you send that to me? When I download it from the mailman site I get weird characters in the downloaded file :( Cheers Patrick _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"