Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-22 Thread User Wojtek
What is wrong with this procedure? The filesystem partitions end up at locations that aren't even multiples of 4K. This can reduce performance. How much probably depends on the SSD. well in my case it is a multiply of any number you like [root@wojtek ~]# bsdlabel ada0 # /dev/ada0: 8 partiti

Re: superpages and kmem on amd64

2012-05-20 Thread User Wojtek
vm.pmap.pde.demotions: 31 No, your conclusion is incorrect. These counts show that 543 superpage mappings were created by promotion. OK, that sounds promising. Does "created by promotion" count reflect historic / cumulative stats, or is vm.pmap.pde.promotions the actual number of superpages

Re: superpages and kmem on amd64

2012-05-20 Thread User Wojtek
historic / cumulative stats, or is vm.pmap.pde.promotions the actual number of superpages active? Or should we subtract vm.pmap.pde.demotions from it to get the current value? yes substracting gives current value. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org maili

Re: Booting Ubuntu and freebsd side by side

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
How can I boot Ubuntu12.4 do with FreeBSD9 ? when I using boot0 , Linux was shown, but would not start without a message! Where is the problem? can launch freebsd with Ubuntu GRUB? How? install ubuntu (or whatever) on one MBR partition, FreeBSD on another then install partition selector with

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
what is really bad in SSD is that they are not flash chips interfaced to computer (so flash-designed filesystem could be written) but complex hard drive emulators. But this way they could sell this to windows users. https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ seems like i have it right. i use noatime AL

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
You may be able to find the exact erase block size in the technical documentation of your specific SSD. But the manufacturers don't always tell. :) b) small fragments (like 1KB) to reduce space usage, as there is no seeking so it will not slow down but save space on relatively small SSD I do

proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-18 Thread User Wojtek
what are proper settings a) 4kB fragments so everything is 4k aligned? SSD drives itself reports as 512 byte blocks, but it is recomenned constantly on many places about 4K alignment for SSD. b) small fragments (like 1KB) to reduce space usage, as there is no seeking so it will not slow down