On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:23:34PM -0500, Russell Meek wrote: > Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: > > >Kris, > > > >thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, > >I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. > >Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched > >to FreeBSD because of better performance especially when I work in X. > >About the port set: what do you mean under "> upgrading your ports > >properly"? I've downloaded the ports.tar.gz (about 30M) and untarred > >it to /usr/ports. what else? > > > >Dmytro > > > >Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:32:12PM +0000, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: > >> > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>Maybe it's my own opinion but I've discovered that 6.0 kernel is > >>>much slower than 5.4, I mean GENERIC in both cases. > >> > >> > >> > >>It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements > >>that led you to conclude this. FreeBSD 6.0 is much faster than > >>FreeBSD 5.4 in my measurements, especially in the area of filesystem > >>performance. > >> > >> > >>>And, as well, 6.0 works right with the set of ports come with it in > >>>distribution inly. Nearly any new port can not assemble with > >>>differnent errors, mostly like: "The version of library XXX is > >>>installed, it's conflict with XXX-1, please do pkg_delete, and > >>>pkg_add then". But after than nearly nothing works. > >> > >> > >> > >>This is not a FreeBSD 6.0 problem, it indicates that you aren't > >>upgrading your ports properly. > >> > >>Look into the portupgrade tool, and if you have specific problems with > >>using it, then post specific questions. > >> > >>Kris > > > >_______________________________________________ > >[email protected] mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Dmytro, > > Sorry the debug -g option did not help. > > I have only noticed increased speed with 6 vs 5.4, but then again I am > not using X, I use FreeBSD only for servers. > > I noticed a slight lag at first and was not using the SCHED_ULE > scheduler, but the 4BSD. > > Removing debug -g and recompiling my kernel pretty much solved that.
Again, -g does not have any runtime performance effect. The symbols it adds are stripped out when the kernel is loaded. Kris
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