Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:09:11 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Bump <bbump@rsts.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System perforamance 4.x vs. 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20080214124929.Y75492@mail.rsts.org> In-Reply-To: <200802141942.m1EJgrKD079291@lava.sentex.ca> References: <20080214114759.R75215@mail.rsts.org> <200802141942.m1EJgrKD079291@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 02:22 PM 2/14/2008, Brett Bump wrote: > > >I've recently upgraded a mailserver from a 4.x version to 6.2. > > I would say move to 6.3R as its a better release with a lot of bug > fixes. In terms of your general performance issues, choice of > hardware really makes a difference as quality of drivers can be an > issue. You might have a really awesome controller that works well on > Windows or LINUX, but does not do so well under FreeBSD because there > isnt any good driver support for it. Again, that isn't diagnosing the problem as much as just saying that 5.0 through 6.2 were all bad releases??? I doubt that can be the case. Why would the driver support for this machine (working FLAWLESSLY on 4.10) now have bad drivers (this machine has been running 4.x for 4 years). > >I'm seeing signal 6's on apache and imapd (never happened before) > > Did you do a fresh install or did you try and migrate from RELENG_4 > to RELENG_6 ? What network card are you using ? What are the errors > (CRC?). How about a dmesg from the box. > > ---Mike > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Fresh install ALWAYS (no migrate, I never go that route). bge0: Broadcom BCM5704 A2, ASIC rev. 0x2002 bge1: Broadcom BCM5704 A2, ASIC rev. 0x2002 -bash-2.05b$ dmesg pid 31611 (milter-greylist), uid 25: exited on signal 3 pid 43464 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 86995 (imapd), uid 2151: exited on signal 6 pid 85706 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 87600 (imapd), uid 1376: exited on signal 6 pid 45621 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 45617 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 The greylist entry is a standard 3am cron restart. Brett
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