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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:41:17 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL benchmarks (now with Linux numbers)
Message-ID:  <4F46500D.3070609@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <201202230822.16304.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <b1732c99-eec2-4097-ad9c-f58979addf9f@email.android.com> <4F45AB76.5050201@FreeBSD.org> <201202230822.16304.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 2/23/12 2:22 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:59:02 pm Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 02/22/2012 01:42, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> The Dragonfly team has recently liberated their VM from the giant lock and there are some interesting benchmarks comparing it to FreeBSD 9 and a 
> derivative of RedHat Enterprise Linux:
>>>
>>> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00008.html
>>>
>>> Other developments are described in their release notes: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release30/
>>
>> The 4.5 times improvement by enabling kern.ipc.shm_use_phys is pretty
>> notable, what prevents us from enabling that by default?
> 
> It makes all your SYSV SHMs wired.  That's fine if you are running a dedicated
> server using SYSV SHMs where you want that process to use all the RAM in the
> machine (e.g. a pgqsl server).  It's not so great for a general purpose load
> where you would like an otherwise-idle process using SYSV SHMs to have the SHMs
> paged out to swap if other processes on the machine need memory and the box is
> under memory pressure.
> 

John, any chance we can get that in layman's terms ?

I'm totally no coder, but I'd really like if we could do this at my work
place to increase our firewalls' performances.



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