Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-15 Thread Martin Cracauer
Tim Traver wrote on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700: > > For simplicity, I used a port called ubench (the latest version 0.3, > which I know is quite old) to get the following numbers : ubench is just another useless artificial benchmark with no base in reality. I forgot the specifics bu

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Jason Evans
Kris Kennaway wrote: Tim Traver wrote: And here is the run of the ubench.5.4 binary: FreeBSD 7.0 - CPU 139,623 - MEM - 207,180 And a rerun of the FreeBSD 7.0 ubench making sure there is absolutely no activity on the box FreeBSD 7.0 - CPU 200,562 - MEM - 107,695 That run is a little better th

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tim Traver wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Robert, ok, I looked and it looks like the port compiles statically, and I was able to grab the binary from the old disk and move it over to the new one... here is info now on how it is linked : [root ~]# ldd ubench.5.4 ubench.5.4: libm.so.3 => /

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Traver
Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>> >> Robert, >> >> ok, I looked and it looks like the port compiles statically, and I was >> able to grab the binary from the old disk and move it over to the new >> one... >> >> here is info now on how it is linked : >> >> [root ~]# ldd ubench.5.4 >> ubench.5.4: >>

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tim Traver wrote: Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Tim Traver wrote: I have recently had the opportunity to upgrade a few servers from old versions of 5.4 to 7.0, and have seen some interesting data. Before doing this, I wanted to take some benchmarks to see how the scripts that I wo

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Traver
Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Tim Traver wrote: > >> I have recently had the opportunity to upgrade a few servers from old >> versions of 5.4 to 7.0, and have seen some interesting data. Before >> doing this, I wanted to take some benchmarks to see how the scripts >> that I would

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tim Traver wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Tim Traver wrote: Is there anything that I can do on this latest 7.0 box that might be useful information??? Someone will need to repeat this under controlled conditions. It's quite a surprising result. Kris Kris, If you can outline a procedure for

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Traver
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Tim Traver wrote: > >> Is there anything that I can do on this latest 7.0 box that might be >> useful information??? > > Someone will need to repeat this under controlled conditions. It's > quite a surprising result. > > Kris Kris, If you can outline a procedure for me, I

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tim Traver wrote: Is there anything that I can do on this latest 7.0 box that might be useful information??? Someone will need to repeat this under controlled conditions. It's quite a surprising result. Kris ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org ma

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Traver
Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Tim Traver wrote: I have recently had the opportunity to upgrade a few servers from old versions of 5.4 to 7.0, and have seen some interesting data. Before doing this, I wanted to take some benchmarks to see how the scripts that I would run would f

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Traver
Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hey Tim, please try a later version of FreeBSD 7, there's been many improvements in the malloc(3) code since 7.0 so these results aren't very meaningful. Can you let us know what you see with 7-stable? thanks, -Alfred Alfred, Thanks for responding, but I was using

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-13 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Tim Traver wrote: I have recently had the opportunity to upgrade a few servers from old versions of 5.4 to 7.0, and have seen some interesting data. Before doing this, I wanted to take some benchmarks to see how the scripts that I would run would fare between the two vers

Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey Tim, please try a later version of FreeBSD 7, there's been many improvements in the malloc(3) code since 7.0 so these results aren't very meaningful. Can you let us know what you see with 7-stable? thanks, -Alfred * Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080812 14:39] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have

7.0 CPU and Memory Performance

2008-08-12 Thread Tim Traver
Hi All, I have recently had the opportunity to upgrade a few servers from old versions of 5.4 to 7.0, and have seen some interesting data. Before doing this, I wanted to take some benchmarks to see how the scripts that I would run would fare between the two versions, and the results are somew