Re: Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

2016-08-24 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
Many ports offer an option to compile with optimized cflags. See for instance http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/ffmpeg: OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off: Use extra compiler optimizations though: SSE=on: Use SSE optimized routines It turns out that optimization options are usually off by defaul

Re: Benchmarks results for Compilers on FreeBSD 11

2016-08-27 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
El 28/8/2016 0:06, "Erich Dollansky" escribió: > > Hi, > > Micheal did a plain compiler benchmark on FreeBSD 11: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd11-clang-gcc&num=1 > > It shows clearly how slow CLang is compared to GCC. > > This is the price FreeBSD has to pay to be f

Re: Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

2016-08-28 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
El 28/8/2016 14:56, "Dimitry Andric" escribió: > > On 28 Aug 2016, at 02:10, K. Macy wrote: > > > >> The problem here is that Phoronix took a Beta version of FreeBSD 11. > >> Beta versions have a lot of debugging (malloc, invariants, witness) > >> options enabled which make it significantly slowe

Re: Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

2016-08-28 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
El 29 ago. 2016 12:36 a. m., "K. Macy" escribió: > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:01 PM, K. Macy wrote: > >>> > >> > >> With 11, one can even simply install devel/openmp which will only install the libopenmp bits from llvm, and after that, base cc can do openmp. > > > > This isn't really useful unle

Re: Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

2016-08-29 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2016-08-29 3:04 GMT+02:00 K. Macy : > > I'm writing from my cellphone away from my computer, so take this with a > > grain of salt: > > > > -L/usr/local/llvm38/lib > > You're missing the point. If your webserver crashes every other day, > the fact that you can run a batch job to restart it doesn't

Re: Benchmarks results for Compilers on FreeBSD 11

2016-08-30 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2016-08-30 9:04 GMT+02:00 Andrea Brancatelli : > > > Il 2016-08-30 05:51 K. Macy ha scritto: > > I can't speak for the whole universe of users, but I think it's safe > to say that most users are not power users who individually configure > ports tailored to their needs. I think my experiences on U

Re: Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

2016-08-31 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
That's great news! Thanks a lot! Excuse me if I drift off-topic, how about -flto? LTO requires both compiler and linker support, however clang3? from ports still calls the system linker 'ld'. LLVM has its own linker, 'lld', but it is not straightforward, AFAIK, to make clang3? call it. My trick u

i915 rc6 powersaving on ironlake failing

2016-11-09 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
Hi everyone, I am running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0 on an old toshiba laptop. I have had drm.i915.enable_rc6=7 on /boot/loader.conf for a long time (at least in 10-RELEASE) and I thought it was working. I have only realised now the following error in dmesg: drmn0: taking over the fictitious ran

Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

2016-12-16 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
Hi everyone, A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that the boot was not as fast as I had expected and I've realized that, while my disk is GPT partitioned, the boot process is still BIOS based: % gpart show => 34 976773

Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

2016-12-17 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2016-12-16 23:56 GMT+01:00 Warner Losh : > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 16 Dec 2016, at 18:53, Antony Uspensky wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > >>> On 12/16/2016 11:39, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:08:3

Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

2016-12-17 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2016-12-17 7:12 GMT+01:00 Ian Smith : > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:34 +0100, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Hi, > > you've had plenty of helpful responses, but nobody has commented on: > > > My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI

Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

2016-12-17 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2016-12-17 9:21 GMT+01:00 Fernando Herrero Carrón : > > > 2016-12-16 23:56 GMT+01:00 Warner Losh : > >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> > On 16 Dec 2016, at 18:53, Antony Uspensky wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, 16 Dec 201

Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6

2017-01-07 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
Hi, I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch: % sudo freebsd-update fetch Password: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... don

Re: Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6

2017-01-10 Thread Fernando Herrero Carrón
2017-01-07 23:38 GMT+01:00 Holger Kipp : > Dear Fernando, > > > On 7 Jan 2017, at 23:27, Fernando Herrero Carrón > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch: > > > > % sudo freebsd-update fetch >