Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-14 Thread Jakub Lach
> I do not loathe ULE, but I also do not use ULE. Maybe my wording wasn't exactly suitable, but that was the point I was trying to make. ULE is default for quite some time (and boasted impressive benchmarks upon introduction too), yet in reality 4BSD is far from being superseded for many. --

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-14 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 01:09:47AM -0700, Jakub Lach wrote: > > "* Scheduler rewrite" > > They threw out old scheduler and have instant gains? That's > too good to be true, seeing as still some loathe ULE in > FreeBSD after all this time. > 'loathe' appears to be an interesting choice of word.

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-14 Thread Alexander Motin
On 14.10.2012 12:47, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 14/10/2012 00:27 Pedro Giffuni said the following: Actually ... On 10/13/2012 13:38, Jakub Lach wrote: I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? Their explanation of the ch

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/10/2012 00:27 Pedro Giffuni said the following: > Actually ... > > On 10/13/2012 13:38, Jakub Lach wrote: >> I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know >> what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? >> > Their explanation of the changes is here: > > http://www

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-14 Thread Jakub Lach
Thanks for replies. "* Finally, default values for many things on 64-bit machines have been adjusted upward significantly to make proper use of available resources" Well that one should be fast to test, if it really makes so much difference. "* Scheduler rewrite" They threw out old scheduler

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 13 October 2012 14:27, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Actually ... > > > On 10/13/2012 13:38, Jakub Lach wrote: >> >> I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know >> what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? >> > Their explanation of the changes is here: > > http://www.sh

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Actually ... On 10/13/2012 13:38, Jakub Lach wrote: I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? Their explanation of the changes is here: http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2012/09/19/10403.html Cheers, Pedro. __

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; On 10/13/2012 13:38, Jakub Lach wrote: I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? I stopped following Dragonfly a while ago but it seems like it was some VM SMP related work: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-13 Thread Jakub Lach
I'm not at all up to date with DragonFly, so does anybody know what did they change so spectacularly between 3.0/3.2? -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-new-DragonFly-3-2-scheduler-and-PostgreSQL-comparision-with-FreeBSD-9-1-RC1-tp5751589p5751733.html Sent

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 October 2012 11:10, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > I don't like comparing Release Candidates without any details about config, > but the fact that DF 3.2 is much better than DF 3.0 is interesting. And they > are very close to performance of Scientific Linux 6.2. Hey cool! And F