We're using mostly: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 6 12:22:18 BST 2005
This is on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. (2 * 2.8 GHz Xeons, 4GB ram, disks), we've been keeping up with stable because supposedly all these new fixes to threading will help us out here. We're trying to get FreeBSD to perform reasonably well, in comparison to Linux, or even what we should expect to see. We're getting about half the performance we get from gentoo on the same application (mysql). The discussion on the 'freebsd-threads' mailing list about a year ago seems to match our experiences nowadays pretty well: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2004-May/002002.html Nothing much seems to have changed, although lots of people claim that FreeBSD 5.x is now fine, it doesn't seem to be. Here's a rough breakdown of the sort of performance we're seeing, this is the default select-key super-smack but setup for innodb rather than myisam. > Using the simple 'select-key.smack' Super-Smack benchmark (50 clients > with 1000 runs each): > > OS CPUs Build Threading Kqueries/sec > ------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD 1 Pro KSE 10.6 > FreeBSD 1 Pro libthr 10.6 > FreeBSD 2 Pro libthr 14.4 > FreeBSD 2 Source libthr 14.5 > FreeBSD 2 Source KSE/P (static) 15.7 > FreeBSD 2 Source KSE/P (dynamic) 15.8 > FreeBSD 2 Source KSE/S (dynamic) 15.8 > FreeBSD 2 Pro KSE 15.9 > FreeBSD 2 Source LinuxThreads 17.7 > Gentoo 2 Source NPTL 34.0 !! > > (KSE/P = KSE with Process Scope Threading, KSE/S = KSE with System > Scope Threading) And, here's the full set of results : > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, MySQL Pro 4.1.12, libkse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 2 0 15978.35 > select_index 100000 3 0 15908.00 > select_index 100000 6 0 15852.89 > select_index 100000 6 0 15888.05 > select_index 100000 5 0 15868.09 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE NON-SMP, MySQL Pro 4.1.12, libkse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 11 0 11846.17 > select_index 100000 7 0 10544.36 > select_index 100000 4 0 10615.13 > select_index 100000 5 0 10607.55 > select_index 100000 4 0 10640.58 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, MySQL Pro 4.1.12, libthr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 130 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > Select_index 100000 19 3 14412.10 > select_index 100000 11 3 14529.83 > select_index 100000 11 3 14489.03 > select_index 100000 12 3 14488.09 > select_index 100000 15 3 14495.77 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE NON-SMP, MySQL Pro 4.1.12, libthr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 7 0 10531.75 > select_index 100000 5 0 10673.64 > select_index 100000 24 2 11179.66 > select_index 100000 28 4 10675.24 > select_index 100000 27 4 10191.25 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, Hand-built 4.1.12, libthr (dynamic) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 13 3 14487.99 > select_index 100000 16 3 14460.64 > select_index 100000 11 3 14397.79 > select_index 100000 15 3 14503.39 > select_index 100000 11 3 14502.58 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, Hand-built 4.1.12, libkse process scope (dynamic) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 16 2 15813.88 > select_index 100000 14 1 15901.01 > select_index 100000 3 0 15870.71 > select_index 100000 14 0 15917.34 > select_index 100000 6 0 15357.74 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, Hand-built 4.1.12, libkse process scope (static) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 130 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 19 3 15836.35 > select_index 100000 22 2 15807.58 > select_index 100000 20 3 15782.74 > select_index 100000 21 3 15790.82 > select_index 100000 21 3 15724.96 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, Hand-built 4.1.12, libkse system scope (dynamic) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 22 0 15792.41 > select_index 100000 8 0 15718.67 > select_index 100000 4 0 15837.49 > select_index 100000 5 0 15834.15 > select_index 100000 3 0 15892.31 > > # FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE SMP, Hand-built 4.1.12, LinuxThreads > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 2 0 17709.35 > select_index 100000 2 0 17701.14 > select_index 100000 1 0 17758.04 > select_index 100000 1 0 17829.17 > select_index 100000 9 0 17557.00 > > # Gentoo Linux 2005.0, Hand-built 4.1.12, NPTL > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 0 % foreach f (1 2 3 4 5) > {/data/supersmack-1.3/bin/super-smack select-key.smack 50 1000|grep > select_index} > select_index 100000 0 0 34420.06 > select_index 100000 2 0 34034.52 > select_index 100000 4 0 33236.42 > select_index 100000 3 0 33210.14 > select_index 100000 1 0 34610.75 Thanks in advance for anyone that has a clue on this, and has anyone figured out why FreeBSD is just so amazingly slow compared to Linux. (That's not meant as flamebait, it just is.) Steve Roome _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"