8.1 speed issues
So I've just upgraded from whatever was stable in 2004 to 8.1 (it's a private file server in my house, I pay no attention to it until it crashes), and uh, the speed difference is very noticeable. In short, it's like I bought a brand new machine that eleven times as fast when all I did was upgrade the OS. How on earth did you guys make such a dramatic improvement? -- -- Schlake ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 speed issues
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, William D. Colburn (Schlake) schl...@gmail.com wrote: So I've just upgraded from whatever was stable in 2004 to 8.1 (it's a private file server in my house, I pay no attention to it until it crashes), and uh, the speed difference is very noticeable. In short, it's like I bought a brand new machine that eleven times as fast when all I did was upgrade the OS. How on earth did you guys make such a dramatic improvement? BSD = Blazing Speed, Dude! Oh, and it's Free. Seriously though, if you're curious, the source code commit logs are always enlightening ;) -Brandon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 speed issues
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: So I've just upgraded from whatever was stable in 2004 to 8.1 (it's a private file server in my house, I pay no attention to it until it crashes), and uh, the speed difference is very noticeable. In short, it's like I bought a brand new machine that eleven times as fast when all I did was upgrade the OS. How on earth did you guys make such a dramatic improvement? Well, I guess the good news is that we did a lot in six years. The bad news is that figuring out which changes helped your specific configuration and workload would be quite tricky. Certainly, our work on SMP optimization for scheduling, network stack, threading, storage, etc, has been a big deal. Thre are also countless protocol improvements in TCP/IP, significant changes in file system code, ... that could well be involved. Needless to say, it's satisfying to hear that it worked out -- I'd like to think we have even further good stuff coming in 9! Robert ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 speed issues
On 06/18/10 14:48, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: So I've just upgraded from whatever was stable in 2004 to 8.1 (it's a private file server in my house, I pay no attention to it until it crashes), and uh, the speed difference is very noticeable. In short, it's like I bought a brand new machine that eleven times as fast when all I did was upgrade the OS. How on earth did you guys make such a dramatic improvement? Only 11? We must be slipping ... Doug (Thanks for the kind words, they really are appreciated) -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
