Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:49:19 +1100 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning my PC64 (heh!) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030323162817.02755660@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <87znnoynjy.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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At 04:31 PM 22/03/03, Kirk Strauser sent this up the stick: >A friend gave me a PC64 system that I'm using as a firewall (running >-STABLE). I have a couple of quick questions: Cool, I have one of these as well :) >1) The system has 2MB of L2 cache. Would bumping that to 8MB make a >noticeable difference on, say, a make buildworld? Potentially ... but I doubt it's worth the cost IIRC cache chips for these babies are hideously expensive. >2) I've installed a Tekram DC-390f U/W SCSI card, and two U/W drives: a 4GB >IBM and a 9GB IBM. Throughput is dismal, to say the least: > ><snip> > >Is there some "DONT_MAKE_SMALL_WRITES_CRAWL" setting that I've missed >somewhere? Running nightly backups on the machine takes forever. I really >don't expect miracles from the little fellow, but still... Can't help here .... my Cabriolet is out of action at the moment, so I'm reinstalling the OS on it. cheers, Rob -- You, you, you shouldn't, you shouldn't traumatize women with sexual intercourse. I should know, I'm a medieval doctor, I own a moat! This is random quote 1246 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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