From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 19: 5:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875C137B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f6D250Y136048; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:05:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:05:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107130205.f6D250Y136048@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: jfortin@akalink.com Subject: Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Fortin writes: > It is regarding the new benchmark (FreeBSD-tuned), > > They forgot to enable write-cache behind (enabled by default in windows2000 > and linux) and a bit other options I would liked of seened. > > hw.ata.wc = 1 That is for ATA. They used SCSI. Even if they had used ATA, AFAIK all the OSes in question leave the write cache as set by the manufacturer. This is different from explicitly enabling it. There was a FreeBSD version that explicitly disabled the write cache, but this was changed due to complaints about performance. > net.inet.tcp.keepidle=10000 > net.inet.tcp.keepintvl=10000 > vm.pageout_algorithm=1 > > as for mount options, "noatime". It's bad enough that a tuned FreeBSD box still collapses under load, while the untuned Linux box doesn't. Now you want to make the FreeBSD box do less work. That looks like really foul play to me. The other systems have "noatime" available too you know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message