On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:22:44PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote:

> Given the single-threaded nature of much of the kernel, what applications do 
> you run where multiple CPUs makes much of a difference to OpenBSD?


Come on, a machine runs multiple processes...

> 
> Also, switching from IDE to any of the supported SCSI, SAS or SATA disk types 
> also produces a noticeable improvement.  I'm not sure if those are available 
> in every KVM implementation or just the Proxmox-integrated version... IIRC 
> they're available in RHEV too, so most likely they're standard.

> 
> -Adam
> 
> On April 17, 2014 11:34:19 AM CDT, Giancarlo Razzolini <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >Em 17-04-2014 07:34, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda escreveu:
> >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Brandon Mercer
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> It will take me about that long to newfs the 10 kvm's I plan on
> >using ;)
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:16:00PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> But bear in mind that ffs2 has more overhead in terms of
> >metadata.
> >>>>>> IMO, making it the default is not a good idea.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> You have fewer than 24 years left to enjoy FFS v1...
> >>>> and I plan to enjoy every minute of that period!
> >>>>
> >>>>         -Otto
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >> I found it really fast to work with kvm/openbsd if you use -drive
> >> ...,if=virtio ...
> >> like 4x-5x times faster than if=ide -the default-
> >>
> >I use everything virtio and the performance difference is quite
> >notable.
> >The only complain is that openbsd won't see more than one processor, no
> >matter what you do.
> >
> >-- 
> >Giancarlo Razzolini
> >GPG: 4096R/77B981BC
> 
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