Kris Kennaway wrote: > libthr has been around (and performing better than libkse) since the 5.x > days and has been recommended for use since 6.0. Yeah I knew it had been around -- missed the recommend part.
>> sysctl kern.timecounter.choice >> kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0) >> dummy(-1000000) >> >> sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware >> kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC I meant to say that this made a rather large difference. >> 3) /tmp is a md0 malloc backed device Eh -- I'll switch it. > > Should be swap backed, but it won't make much difference on your workload. > >> (I'm thinking of using tmpfs in 7.0 when I switch) > > tmpfs is not yet production-ready even though it performs better. Yeah that I knew, but I haven't had any issues with it on any of my desktops that run it. >> my.cnf >> innodb_thread_concurrency = 8 > > You want '0' or performance will suck. There's a basic architectural > flaw in how mysql handles non-zero concurrency values here (innodb > accesses are serialized by a global mutex that protects a counter to > check if it should try to allow more innodb concurrency. Duh.) > > Anyway, assuming your disks can keep up you should see a big performance > boost when you switch to 7.0. This is a fairly big "if" though: I don't > know if it's even feasible for a write-heavy database to saturate 8 CPUs > instead of being bottlenecked by disk speeds and leaving the CPUs mostly > idle. Ah boo!!! I have DBs that are SELECT heavy and those that are WRITE heavy. I suppose I'll attached the my.cnf I'm using. Is it worth having the port remove that recommendation from the /usr/local/share/mysql/*.cnf files ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) c:323.219.4708 o:703.749.9295x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"