Re: ar performing abysmally

2014-10-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:12:05AM -0500, Jim Bell wrote: > Upgraded to FreeBSD-10/gcc48. One project puts a dozen object files in a > static lib via ar, but now that takes a long time, and it's not CPU. > > ?time ar -v -c -u -q ...? : 362.62 real 0.11 user 0.82 sys. > ?time ar -v -c -r -

Re: sysutils/sge6[012]: Sun Grid Engine - still broklen due to utmpx?

2011-09-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:58:33AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:04:49AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > I was wondering if the SUN Grid Engine, located in port > > sysutils/sge6[012] is still broken due to utmpx. > > > > My department uses th

Re: sysutils/sge6[012]: Sun Grid Engine - still broklen due to utmpx?

2011-09-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:04:49AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > I was wondering if the SUN Grid Engine, located in port > sysutils/sge6[012] is still broken due to utmpx. > > My department uses this GRID engine on Linux and since a long time I > wish to use it also on FreeBSD. I've not had a dece

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:03:45PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: > > Ivan Voras wrote: > > ... > > > >> > >> OTOH if the goal is to measure "operating system" performance, this > >> must also include the compiler, libraries and all. (for example, what > >> does Solaris default to n

Re: Performance Tracker project update

2008-02-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:46:10PM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Brooks Davis skrev: >> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:41:09AM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >>> I finally got around to testing this, and with a combination of mtree >>> comparing md5 hashes, bsdiff c

Re: Performance Tracker project update

2008-02-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:41:09AM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Brooks Davis skrev: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:20:23PM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >>> >>> I'd like a situation where I can very quickly set up a slave with a >>> specific vers

Re: Performance Tracker project update

2008-01-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:20:23PM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Robert Watson wrote: >> One thing I am looking at is how to best create a library of world >> tarballs that can be used to populate a nfsroot (or hybrid of periodic >> tarballs + binary diffs to save space

Re: Performance Tracker project update

2008-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:48:23AM +0100, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to send a small update on my progress on the Performance Tracker > project. > > I now have a small setup of a server and a slave chugging along, currently > collecting data. I'm following CURRENT and collecting

Re: Optimizing "make release"

2007-09-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > >> [...] > >> If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks in any > >> way?),

Re: Optimizing "make release"

2007-09-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Hi! > > In an effort to run benchmarks on the latest CURRENT on a couple of slave > machines, I need to build the distribution sets necessary for an NFS install > as fast as possible (the slaves are installing over PXE), but

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes > and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups > around here and I saw something interesting. > > On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P

Re: Is 6.x slower then 4.x ... ?

2006-07-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:49:35AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > I've read/seen reports on -questions about this ... especially in an SMP > environment ... > > Is there any truth to this? > > One person that posted on -questions pointed out that when he tried to > point out the difference, he

Re: Horrible PostgreSQL performance with NFS

2006-01-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:58:47PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:42:02AM -0800, Arne Woerner wrote: > > Did you do those "dd" tests with small block sizes (like 1byte: > > bs=1), like somebody on one of those lists suggests, too? Then we > > could see, if there is a high l

Re: Horrible PostgreSQL performance with NFS

2006-01-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:10:48PM -0800, Arne Woerner wrote: > Hiho! > > --- Slawek Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple of days ago I've moved our > > production database from local disks > > to NetAPP filer serving NFS. Performance > > for this server dropped by factor of 10 > > if not m