Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:14 -0500 From: em1897@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: linicks@gmail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question Message-ID: <8C6FA2D0FF4CB85-BFC-1014C@mblk-r32.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <20050318233039.33837.qmail@web90209.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20050318233039.33837.qmail@web90209.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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:Boris, : I would agree that my initial impression of 5.3 was that it was slow :compared to 4.x. After some tuning, I now have 5.3 running at an :acceptable performance level. You may want to start testing the newer :versions of 5 current. I have noticed improved performance on my test :servers and believe that 5.4 will demonstrate an improvement in :performance. I know that the guys on the performance list would like :to get some good feedback if you find any specific bottlenecks with it :as well. : :--Nick FYI, I recently testing bridging/network performance on 5.4-pre and its about the same as 5.3: 25 to 30% more CPU load for the same traffic levels than 4.x. SMP drops packets at about 60% load and seems to have a lower capacity than UP. I'm sure some things are faster, but networking is a large component for most people I think. Threaded network stacks just don't seem to perform well, certainly not on UP. Linux MP works much better, but with 2 CPUs it has the capacity of FreeBSD 4.x with 1. So its hard to justify. FWIW, its quite a bit better with UP than DragonFLY, but dragonfly is much better with 2 processors. On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:51:43 -0800 (PST), Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- cyb <cyb.@gmx.net> wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html > > > > Looks like you will need to use 5.3-release (or > > 5.3-stable/5.4-prerelease if you have more than > > 4GB). > > > > Why can you not use 5.3? > > 5.3 is too slow, and we have custom code. Why use > faster hardware just to use slower version of O/S? > Please don't start with flames. This is what I > feel. > > I don't need so much RAM, so 4.x will work with > 1 or 2GB of RAM? > > Boris > > > > > > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 09:43 -0800, Boris > > Spirialitious wrote: > > > --- Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com> > > > wrote: > > > > When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have > > 4.9. > > > > is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. > > > > > > > > Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I > > > > use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any > > > > big problems? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Boris > > > > > > Does anyone know answer please? Someone must use > > > Opteron here > > > > > > Boris > > > > -- > > GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | > > http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc > > Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B > > 0372 D25F CC81 > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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