Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:55:00PM +, David E. Cross wrote: > Yes, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that my 6.1 partition > has a bad block in .. say.. libc that's delaying reads and causing me > trouble, I just remember installing 6.1 and thinking "OUCH". > > I get the impression th

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread David E. Cross
Yes, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that my 6.1 partition has a bad block in .. say.. libc that's delaying reads and causing me trouble, I just remember installing 6.1 and thinking "OUCH". I get the impression that this is a latency issue more then a bandwidth issue (responsiveness vs

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:44 AM -0600 4/12/06, Scott Long wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: I didn't think this was a 6.1 regression compared to 6.0, but 6.x compared to 4.x. It would be good to try and quantify any performance differences here - so far it's just a b

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Scott Long
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not done". > I

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:36:43PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: > >> I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap > >> performance under 6.x is slower the

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:03 AM -0400 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not done". > I noticed that 6.1 seemed to b

Re: swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:43:32PM +, David E. Cross wrote: > I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap > performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not > done". > > I noticed that 6.1 seemed to be a dog, but 6.0 I thought was better. As > a t

swap performance under 6.1

2006-04-11 Thread David E. Cross
I saw under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html that swap performance under 6.x is slower then 4.X, and this is listed as "not done". I noticed that 6.1 seemed to be a dog, but 6.0 I thought was better. As a test I installed 6.0 and 6.1 in parallel on my laptop with identical ports tr