RE: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance Kris, thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched to FreeBSD because of better performance

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Dmytro Surovtsev
I was not really honest: I did compiled the kernel without -g option. Nothing different. The only thing that looks like help was compile without PREEMPTIVE option. I'm sorry very much for FreeBSD that I like many years. I do not think that racing for issuing the new RELEASE (so called in this

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Dmytro Surovtsev
Kris, thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched to FreeBSD because of better performance especially when I work in X. About the port

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:30:39AM +, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: Kris, thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched to FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:23:26AM +, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: I was not really honest: I did compiled the kernel without -g option. Nothing different. The only thing that looks like help was compile without PREEMPTIVE option. I'm sorry very much for FreeBSD that I like many years. I do

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Russell Meek
Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: Kris, thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but siwtched to FreeBSD because of better performance especially when I

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:23:34PM -0500, Russell Meek wrote: Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: Kris, thanks for reply. I did not provide any special tests for performance, I catch it just working on my workstation - P-4, 3 GHz, 512 MB. Long time ago (several monthes) I've used Gentoo Linux, but

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:32:12PM +, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: Hello, Maybe it's my own opinion but I've discovered that 6.0 kernel is much slower than 5.4, I mean GENERIC in both cases. It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements that led you to conclude this.

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-22 Thread Russell Meek
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:32:12PM +, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: Hello, Maybe it's my own opinion but I've discovered that 6.0 kernel is much slower than 5.4, I mean GENERIC in both cases. It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements that led you to conclude this. FreeBSD 6.0 is much faster than FreeBSD 5.4 in my measurements, especially in the area of filesystem performance. exactly same conclusion here! without even any precise benchmarking, just as i

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:37:52PM -0500, Russell Meek wrote: The stock Generic Kernel for 6.0-Release has debugging features which according to the kernel developement team where left in during release. Try to recompile the Generic Kernel with the option debug -g commented out and see if