Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning fsync on > Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on any of the BSDs > ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the various OSs, and am > curious as to

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/26/10 21:17, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning fsync on Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on any of the BSDs ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning fsync on > Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on any of the BSDs > ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the various OSs, and am > curious as to

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:33:52 -0300 (ADT) "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning > fsync on Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on > any of the BSDs ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the > various OSs, and a

fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning fsync on Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on any of the BSDs ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the various OSs, and am curious as to whether or not this is something that also afflicts us: h

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-06 Thread Adam PAPAI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/5/10 2:43 AM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > On 5 June 2010 00:58, Adam PAPAI wrote: > >> How can I tune my disk to make it faster? Is it possible? What is the >> reason of the really slow I/O with more than 4 threads? What do you >> recommend me to d

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Max Laier
On Saturday 05 June 2010 01:58:35 Adam PAPAI wrote: > Why FreeBSD is supreme with 1 and 2 thread. And why is it 2 and 3 times > slower with 4-8-16-32 threads compared to Debian? The first two tests (1 > thread and 2 thread) showed me that FreeBSD is supreme in I/O, but later > tests showed me, that

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
/usr/src : zfs with compression enabled /usr/src : 386.3MB/s >>> Do I understand it well? It seems that zfs with compression enabled on >>> /usr/src with 8KB block size and 16 threads performs 386.3MB/s which >>> is about 6 times better than debian5? I am thinking about this image >>> ht

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Adam PAPAI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/5/10 1:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 12:50:15 +0200 > Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > >>> /var : ufs with softupdates >>> /usr/obj : zfs with checksums disabled >>> /usr/src : zfs with compression enabled >>> /home : zfs with compre

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 12:50:15 +0200 Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > > /var : ufs with softupdates > > /usr/obj : zfs with checksums disabled > > /usr/src : zfs with compression enabled > > /home : zfs with compression disabled and checksums enabled > > > > I ran a test with a blocksize of 8KB and 16 t

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
> /var : ufs with softupdates > /usr/obj : zfs with checksums disabled > /usr/src : zfs with compression enabled > /home : zfs with compression disabled and checksums enabled > > I ran a test with a blocksize of 8KB and 16 threads. > > /var : 25.2MB/s > /usr/obj : 64.8MB/s > /usr/src : 386.

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Adam PAPAI
On 6/5/10 3:36 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > Some quick tests show that ufs does do rather poorly on my system too. I have > the following filesystems setup: > > /var : ufs with softupdates > /usr/obj : zfs with checksums disabled > /usr/src : zfs with compression enabled > /home : zfs with compressi

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Saturday 05 June 2010 00:58:35 Adam PAPAI wrote: > Why FreeBSD is supreme with 1 and 2 thread. And why is it 2 and 3 times > slower with 4-8-16-32 threads compared to Debian? The first two tests (1 > thread and 2 thread) showed me that FreeBSD is supreme in I/O, but later > tests showed me, tha

Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 5 June 2010 00:58, Adam PAPAI wrote: > How can I tune my disk to make it faster? Is it possible? What is the > reason of the really slow I/O with more than 4 threads? What do you > recommend me to do? Why is it damn slow with 8K blocksize? Does linux still have async disk writes by default?

sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Adam PAPAI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, A week ago I started to benchmark Linux vs. FreeBSD on a Dell Poweredge 1850. CPU: 2 x 3.4Ghz Xeon (Dual Core) Memory: 8GB (4x2) Disk: 1 x SEAGATE ST373454LC D404 (SCSI) FreeBSD kazoku 8.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue May 25

Re: Linux vs FreeBSD: wlan-cards

2004-09-13 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:01:26 +0200 "Florian Hengstberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I know I posted a similar question two days ago, sorry - I?m > still in trouble with finding a proper wlan-card. > The hardware "database" on the freebsd-site did not help me: > most cards are either no

RE: Linux vs FreeBSD: wlan-cards

2004-09-13 Thread Hauan, David
> -Original Message- > From: Florian Hengstberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:01 PM > To: FreeBSD mailinglist > Subject: Linux vs FreeBSD: wlan-cards > > > Hi! > > I know I posted a similar question two days ago, s

Re: Linux vs FreeBSD: wlan-cards

2004-09-13 Thread arden
ive been looking for this too im about to order netgear wg511t and wg311t cards from the google searches ive done they look to be supported Arden On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 20:01, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > > I know I posted a similar question two days ago, sorry - I?m > still in trouble

Linux vs FreeBSD: wlan-cards

2004-09-13 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I know I posted a similar question two days ago, sorry - I?m still in trouble with finding a proper wlan-card. The hardware "database" on the freebsd-site did not help me: most cards are either not avaiable in Austria or simply to expensive. So my question is: Has anybody found a cheap wlan-c

ncplogin: Linux vs FreeBSD ...

2002-12-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
We're still plugging away at getting this to work ... I haven't given up on FreeBSD for this yet ... Have a Linux guy here that's been helping to debug this, and one of the question that he had was whether or not our ncplogin supports NDS ... apparently, the ncplib we have in ports doesn't suppor

Upgrading (was) Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > An upgrade consists of the following commands: > 'cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile && cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld && > make buildkernel KERNCONF=whatever && make installkernel > KERNCONF=whatever && make installworld && reboot' > Theoretically

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Charles Pelletier
D]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD > > --- Derrick Ryalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info > > > > I have an associate who wil

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Derrick Ryalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info > > I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network > and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: > >

RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
W. D. writes: > At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote: > >FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade, > >or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot > >to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone from > >FreeBSD 4.1 to 4.7, inc

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
W. D. wrote: At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote: FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade, or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone from FreeBSD 4.1 to 4.7, including every rele

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network > and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: > > Web server (Public IP) > inet - router( Public IP) --- / >

RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread W. D.
At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote: >FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade, >or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot >to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone from >FreeBSD 4.1 to 4.7, including every release in betwe

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
From: "Dan Pelleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:39 PM Subject: RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD > > As has been said, the clients don't care much what the router is > running as long as it

RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Pelleg
As has been said, the clients don't care much what the router is running as long as it handles the packets correctly. I would strongly recommend FreeBSD for this and this is based on my experience in a mixed FreeBSD/Linux shop. FreeBSD has excellent support for intelligent and traditional packet

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Jennings
Hi Derrick, On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:17:10PM -0700, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info > > I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network > and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: >

Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-23 Thread Derrick Ryalls
I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: Web server (Public IP) inet - router( Publ