From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 13 6: 5:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 06:05:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from crotchety.newsbastards.org (netcop.newsbastards.org [193.162.153.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAC637B400; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by crotchety.newsbastards.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBDE50G03431; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:05:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from newsmeower@free-pr0n.netscum.dk) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:05:00 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200012131405.eBDE50G03431@crotchety.newsbastards.org> X-Authentication-Warning: crotchety.newsbastards.org: news set sender to newsmeower@free-pr0n.netscum.dk using -f Reply-To: freebsd-hacker@netscum.dk To: Matt Dillon From: News Account In-Reply-To: <200012130621.eBD6LPa80568@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches available (was Re: Extreme high load with 12/7 4-releng) References: <200012120230.SAA32402@pathlink.net> <200012121801.KAA42878@pathlink.net> <200012122138.NAA69074@pathlink.net> <200012122231.eBCMVE353411@earth.backplane.com> <200012130209.eBD290M79194@earth.backplane.com> <200012130621.eBD6LPa80568@earth.backplane.com> Sender: newsmeower@free-pr0n.netscum.dk Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have made a patchset available for both -current and -stable on my site: > http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ > sysctl -w vm.debug_pageout_stats=1 > The debugging code prints a line to dmesg and /var/log/messages each > time the pageout daemon runs a scan, and tells you how many clean pages, [...] > This output would be invaluable to me coming from people who still have > major performance problems on heavily loaded machines. > > I would appreciate wide testing, especially by anyone running heavily > loaded -stable boxes. I am especially interested in how this patchset > performs on news boxes. Okay, I'm gathering data as we speak, but, would you still want to see this data from a news box, if I had *not* been noticing major performance problems, just to have some numbers to drool over? Regardless, I'll keep running the patchset on this lightly-loaded news box (-stable) which seems to be pretty responsive... thanks! barry bouwsma, lame-duck newsmangler at tele danmark internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message