Poor performance
Slawa Olhovchenkov
slw at zxy.spb.ru
Sat Dec 13 23:09:23 PST 2003
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 01:55:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> writes:
> > I have upgrade web server from 4.7 to current (cvsup date 2003.12.08.06.40.00)
> > and have degradation performance.
>
> des at dwp /usr/src% head -18 UPDATING
> Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
>
> This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh
> <imp at village.org>. See end of file for further details. For commonly
> done items, please see the COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.
>
> NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
> FreeBSD 5.x has many debugging features turned on, in
> both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect
> incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure
> through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics. They
> also substantially impact system performance. If you want to
> do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
> you'll want to turn them off. This includes various WITNESS-
> related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags
> in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel. Many
> developers choose to disable these features on build machines
> to maximize performance.
No, this is not related there.
I am cvsuped to 2003.12.13.18.13.00 and performance back to normal.
Sorry.
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Slawa Olhovchenkov
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