Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:37:52 -0500 From: Russell Meek <russell@russellmeek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance Message-ID: <43839DC0.8040906@russellmeek.net> In-Reply-To: <20051122212111.GA72725@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4383561C.30900@buc.com.ua> <20051122212111.GA72725@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:32:12PM +0000, Dmytro Surovtsev wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>Maybe it's my own opinion but I've discovered that 6.0 kernel is much >>slower than 5.4, I mean GENERIC in both cases. >> >> > >It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements >that led you to conclude this. FreeBSD 6.0 is much faster than >FreeBSD 5.4 in my measurements, especially in the area of filesystem >performance. > > > >>And, as well, 6.0 works >>right with the set of ports come with it in distribution inly. Nearly >>any new port can not assemble with differnent errors, mostly like: "The >>version of library XXX is installed, it's conflict with XXX-1, please do >>pkg_delete, and pkg_add then". But after than nearly nothing works. >> >> > >This is not a FreeBSD 6.0 problem, it indicates that you aren't >upgrading your ports properly. > >Look into the portupgrade tool, and if you have specific problems with >using it, then post specific questions. > >Kris > > Dmytro, The stock Generic Kernel for 6.0-Release has debugging features which according to the kernel developement team where left in during release. Try to recompile the Generic Kernel with the option debug -g commented out and see if that helps with the speed issues you have encountered. Thanks, Russell
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