Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Josh Carroll wrote: is bigger better or worse? For sysbench bigger is better (more transactions per second). For ffmpeg, lower is better - e.g. the time to transcode the first 120 seconds of the selected video is less, so it ran faster. don't forget to give this info when giving numbers :-)

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-12-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> is bigger better or worse? For sysbench bigger is better (more transactions per second). For ffmpeg, lower is better - e.g. the time to transcode the first 120 seconds of the selected video is less, so it ran faster. Josh ___ freebsd-performance@freeb

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Josh Carroll wrote: I just ran through some of my benchmarks on a kernel build from sources as of today, and I've noticed an improvement for the ffmpeg workload. Here's a comparison of 4bsd, ule (BETA1) and ule (BETA3). This is vanilla source with no patches applied: Sorry, the ministat output

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:10 PM 12/2/2007, Peter Losher wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: > I think the card in question is twa in this case. Not in our case... Sorry, I was referring to the original posters card http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2007-November/002942.html The box is a dual

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-02 Thread Peter Losher
Mike Tancsa wrote: > I think the card in question is twa in this case. Not in our case... -=- twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port 0x9c00-0x9c0f mem 0xfb6ffc00-0xfb6ffc0f,0xfa80-0xfaff irq 29 at device 3.0 on pci1 twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twe0: [ITHREAD]

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:48:24 -0800 Manjunath R Gowda wrote: > On 12/1/07, Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3ware driver is under GIANT at 7.x. I don't know if it's the same for > > linux. > It is not under GIANT any more, MPSAFE starting from 7.0 BETA1. Wow, that's great news! Thank