Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:56:17 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <9706CBFC-9A69-4365-8883-FF45BDFDC108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111222235846.GA6071@icarus.home.lan> References: <xf5fxrkpagw2qf65tk9y2njf.1324492907631@email.android.com> <4EF3C0CE.5040802@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111222235846.GA6071@icarus.home.lan>
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On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrot= e: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> Hi, >>>=20 >>> while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other pla= ce. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel f= ree to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what ca= n be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional people= which are willing to improve it. >>>=20 >>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which coul= d be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers= ? A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other tuni= ng sources are welcome too. >>>=20 >>> Every FreeBSD dev with a wiki account can hand out write access to the w= iki. The benchmark page gives contributor-access. If someone wants write acc= ess create a FirstnameLastname account and ask here for contributor-access. >>>=20 >>> Don't worry if you think your english is not good enough, even some one-= word notes can help (and _my_ english got already corrected by other people o= n the benchmark page). >>>=20 >>> Bye, >>> Alexander. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>=20 >> Nice to see movement ;-) >>=20 >> But there seems something unclear: >>=20 >> man make.conf(5) says, that MALLOC_PRODUCTION is a knob set in >> /etc/make.conf. >> The WiJi says, MALLOC_PRODUCTION is to be set in /etc/src.conf. >>=20 >> What's right and what's wrong now? >=20 > I can say with certainty that this value belongs in /etc/make.conf > (on RELENG_8 and earlier at least). >=20 > src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk has no framework for MK_MALLOC_PRODUCTION, > so, this is definitely a make.conf variable. Take the advice in tuning(7) with a grain of salt because a number of sugges= tions are really outdated. I know because I filed a PR last night after I sa= w how out of synch some of the defaults it claimed were with reality on 9.x+= . And I know other suggestions in the manpage are dated as well ;/. Thanks, -Garrett=
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