On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Here are my benchmark numbers for parallel tarball extraction > with/without mpsafevfs on a 12-processor E4500 running up-to-date 6.0. > Kernel was built without INVARIANTS and other debugging options, > without ADAPTIVE_GIANT (which causes about a 200% performance penalty > on system time in my testing, and has marginal impact on real or user > time) and with 4BSD scheduler (ULE causes spontaneous reboots on this > machine). The e4500 uses the esp SCSI controller, which runs > without Giant.
Excellect writeup! Thanks for doing this. Many thanks to Jeff! Some of my users will certaintly thank you when we upgrade our cluster to 6.x. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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