From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 21:52:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15F616A403 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7CA43D49 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:51:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l23so22370nfc for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QLh63zsflhpyGUUKJk5F0s2dp1+0j5z6JGqiATVL1mg4O7uBJ1Oc18OM2pUTZpM47dbwuuibrg7vUFtZQGUyNmsfbBH5ENcpw9XOOXT4hEt9ijPfcDtJ+2EDrQ+UW1TgYSm6FF5QAD0+R37qaGcOI17of251aobGmTBCwQbAPJo= Received: by 10.48.202.19 with SMTP id z19mr119945nff.1163454709199; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.203.2 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:49 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20061113212557.GB53818@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4558C9E4.6050008@ccstores.com> <20061113212557.GB53818@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:52:22 -0000 Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to ensure full update-ness? On 11/13/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients > > that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous > > version (5.XX). > > > > I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance > > hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients. > > > > I've seen the "trolls" of past about speed and previous versions, and I > > would really be interested to hear the actual truth about 6.XX speed. > > It is my understanding that 6.XX is more optimized for multi-processors, > > and that for a single processor, 5.XX (or even 4.XX) outperforms 6.XX. > > > > Would someone please outline the choices/drawbacks/concerns of even > > considering going back a series? > > 6.x is 5.x with performance bottlenecks fixed. This applies both to > UP and SMP systems. Therefore it's pretty surprising that you're > seeing a slowdown between 5.x and 6.x, so you should try to look into > exactly why your system seems to be running slower. Perhaps it's just > a simple misconfiguration, or related to some other change you made at > the same time as you updated. > > Kris > > >