Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:59:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Planned Performance improvements? GIANT free ciss, bge,...? Message-ID: <20040414115921.GA49026@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200404140913.i3E9Dpb74482@alogis.com> References: <200404140913.i3E9Dpb74482@alogis.com>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:13:46AM +0000, Holger Kipp wrote: > I haven't found an overview about the current timeline > regarding specific devices. As we are going to use a few > systems with 5-CURRENT for customer production environment > (webservers), can anyone comment on planned improvements > for the next few days/weeks (if any), especially >=20 > - GIANT removal for ciss and bge (the others as mentioned by > dmesg are npx, acpi, ohci and atkbd). >=20 > - Other improvements regarding HTT and scheduling? >=20 > currently, we have 11.3 web pages per second with SCHED_4BSD > 11.5 web pages per second with SCHED_ULE > with 0% idle under SCHED_4BSD, 5-7% idle under SCHED_ULE. > (this is without witness or invariants, of course) > (under 4.9-STABLE numbers are slightly below 11) Aspects of network locking are actively being addressed by Robert Watson and collaborators. If you're willing to test the patches, they're here: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/ Some performance numbers from real-world applications would surely be welcomed. I've been running them on ~35 heavily loaded machines (only a few SMP) with good results (i.e. no panics for a few days, I haven't tried to measure performance) Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfSeYWry0BWjoQKURAqJLAJ9bi0U2Tohk+cJ/+/uMc7Jgb1NrCwCfczTn fwcnLO7ZdBlTRs63sYNykiM= =+9kW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--
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