From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 18:21:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF8116A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:21:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.196.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5354243D39 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 54108 invoked by uid 2003); 8 Jan 2005 18:16:48 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. Clear:RC:1(216.220.116.154):. Processed in 0.096108 secs); 08 Jan 2005 18:16:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.40?) (216.220.116.154) by 0 with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Jan 2005 18:16:48 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:21:14 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@oof.local To: Ceri Davies In-Reply-To: <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net> Message-ID: References: <41DE4F3D.8050509@syskonnect.de> <20050107091004.83732.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com> <20050107101006.GA2553@frontfree.net> <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: tjr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:21:23 -0000 On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: >>> I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My >>> only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD. >> >> I guess that this might worth investigating: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~das/pbench/pbench.html >> >> (Unfortuantelly, neither tjr@ nor I have touched our patchsets recently. >> A most recent snapshot of the two patchsets are here: >> >> http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid.diff >> http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid-tjr.diff) >> >> Most of the work was to catch up with Aug 2004's -CURRENT, but it might >> be easier to bring them up-to-date instead of working from the very original >> patches =-) > > Looks great. Any reason why neither has been committed? Any idea what type of impact this patch would have on say, a large qmail server that's drowning in context-switches? Charles > Ceri > -- > Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm > not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) >