2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:13:19PM +0300, Alexey Popov wrote:
>As mentioned in the description of your patch there is probably a 
>scalability problem with stat() syscall on FreeBSD.

I wrote a quick tool to lstat() path elements on an otherwise idle
dual-core system (1.6GHz Turion64x2, FreeBSD6.3/amd64).
One instance:  ~62k lstat/sec.  99% sys
Two instances, same path: ~43k lstat/sec/instance.  97%sys
Two instances, different path, same fs: ~50k lstat/sec/instance.  97%sys
Two instances, different fs: ~53k lstat/sec/instance.  98%sys

The slowdowns, especially the same path instance, are worse than I would
have hoped.

>makes that 2000+ lstat's without problem. There's still stat(), open(), 
>gettimeofday(), close() syscalls for each include file in PHP that i can 
>not switch off.

Note that gettimeofday() is known to be much slower (and more
accurate) on FreeBSD than on Linux.  Robert Watson (if I recall
correctly) has done some work on building a framework to allow a
choice between slow-and-accurate and fast-and-less-precise timestamps.
I don't have the reference to hand but a check of the archives should
turn it up.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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