Benchmarking mpsafevfs with parallel tarball extraction

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Here are my benchmark numbers for parallel tarball extraction
> with/without mpsafevfs on a 12-processor E4500 running up-to-date 6.0.
> Kernel was built without INVARIANTS and other debugging options,
> without ADAPTIVE_GIANT (which causes about a 200% performance penalty
> on system time in my testing, and has marginal impact on real or user
> time) and with 4BSD scheduler (ULE causes spontaneous reboots on this
> machine).  The e4500 uses the esp SCSI controller, which runs
> without Giant.

Excellect writeup!  Thanks for doing this.

Many thanks to Jeff!  Some of my users will certaintly thank you when
we upgrade our cluster to 6.x.

-- Brooks

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