Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Trim CC a bit] On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:56:35PM + I heard the voice of Alexander Best, and lo! it spake thus: > On Thu Nov 18 10, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > Well, my (admittedly limited, and certainly anecdotal) experience > > is that Linux's interactive

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:23:24PM + I heard the voice of Alexander Best, and lo! it spake thus: > > judging from the videos the changes are having a huge impact imo. Well, my (admittedly limited, and certainly anecdotal) experience is that Linux's interactive response when under heavy load w

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:36:05AM +0100 I heard the voice of Divacky Roman, and lo! it spake thus: > > hm.. now I am confused. the rule is that having I586_CPU improves > performance because optimized bzero/bcopy is included (its not > included if you only have I686_CPU). Haven't we been by thi

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +1000 I heard the voice of Michael Vince, and lo! it spake thus: > > According to pftop (with modulate state rules) I am able to get > about 85megs/sec when I don't have dd running. dd does indeed eats a > fair amount of cpu (40%) on the AMD64 6-stable machine.

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

2006-05-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:47:27PM +0100 I heard the voice of Robert Watson, and lo! it spake thus: > > In past discussion, I think a reasonable conclusion has been some > amount of both. I've still got sitting around in my bookmarks f

Re: slow tar performance on fbsd5

2005-08-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:49:39PM +0200 I heard the voice of JG, and lo! it spake thus: > > Anyway, it's only a few secs difference, so the problem must be with > write. Any other hints? :) Gentoo is using GNU tar, 5.4 is using bsdtar. Try installing gtar on FreeBSD and see what the time is.

Re: High usage of mbufs

2005-05-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:17:24PM +1000 I heard the voice of Michael VInce, and lo! it spake thus: > On one of my web servers I have a really high usage of mbuf clusters in > use on a web server that does about 3million hits a day. > 4294914731/262144 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) No it doe

Re: 64bit CPUs

2005-05-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:46:09AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Tancsa, and lo! it spake thus: > > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server > application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit > CPUs ? It should be noted that according to most benchmarks I've s