Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-14 Thread Remy Nonnenmacher
On 06/14/13 04:05, David Xu wrote: On 2013/06/13 20:01, Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: On 06/13/13 13:32, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:58:49 -0500, David O'Brien wrote: We found FreeBSD 8.4 to perform better than FreeBSD 9.1, and Linux considerably better than both on the same mach

Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread David Xu
On 2013/06/13 20:01, Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: On 06/13/13 13:32, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:58:49 -0500, David O'Brien wrote: We found FreeBSD 8.4 to perform better than FreeBSD 9.1, and Linux considerably better than both on the same machine. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?

Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:31:19 -0500, David O'Brien wrote: 10-CURRENT results were in http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/jbm/vanitygen/vanity-perf-graph.png as "fbsd10". Or are you suggesting something else? Whoops, I missed fbsd10 on that graph. Sorry! ___

Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:32:41AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > The CPUs between those machines are quite different. I wouldn't say they are "quite" different. It's not like comparing Netburst to Core2, or I believe even original Core2 to Sandybridge. I may be wrong, I've not followed Intel cores

Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread Remy Nonnenmacher
On 06/13/13 13:32, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:58:49 -0500, David O'Brien wrote: We found FreeBSD 8.4 to perform better than FreeBSD 9.1, and Linux considerably better than both on the same machine. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=241246 The above link i

Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:58:49 -0500, David O'Brien wrote: We found FreeBSD 8.4 to perform better than FreeBSD 9.1, and Linux considerably better than both on the same machine. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=241246 The above link is likely why 8.4 is better than 9.1 on

Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-12 Thread David O'Brien
Hi all, $WORK is looking to see what throwing money at a build can do. We've been building the product on FreeBSD 8.3/amd64 in a 7.1/i386 jail, on on Supermicro X8DT3 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/qpi/5500/x8dt3.cfm w/Xeon X5690 3.47GHz: "2 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 SMT threads".