Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:11:18PM -0500, Umnada Tyrolla wrote: > > When compiling code, most transfers will be small. A single hard drive > > spinning at 7200rpm is in theory capable of 240 transfers per second > > (assuming each transaction requires the platter to rotate on > > average by half >

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-24 Thread Umnada Tyrolla
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Brian Candler > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 7:07 AM > To: Vijay Sankar > Cc: Marc Balmer; Claudio Jeker; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Performance Statistics: -current > &

Re: Performance Statistics: -current (SOLVED)

2007-01-19 Thread Vijay Sankar
Thanks to everyone's suggestions, especially the one by Stuart Henderson about updating the bios, I am now able to build and test OpenOffice more efficiently, using -current! Since I am in a learning mode, I decided to run the builds on two different machines simultaneously (AMD 4600 on ASUS

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-19 Thread Vijay Sankar
On Friday 19 January 2007 06:07, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:03:05PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote: > > > if top shows ~20% system load, even when idle, try disabling iic and > > > ichiic in UKC. sth we have to do here with an ASUS server. > > > > Thank you very much for your rep

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-19 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:03:05PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote: > > if top shows ~20% system load, even when idle, try disabling iic and ichiic > > in UKC. sth we have to do here with an ASUS server. > > Thank you very much for your reply. > > I did not notice the system load to be very high (it w

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Vijay Sankar
On Thursday 18 January 2007 12:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/01/18 11:46, Vijay Sankar wrote: > > apps1# vmstat -i > > interrupt total rate > > irq7/ohci0 30 > > irq5/ehci01280 > > irq10/pciide1

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/01/18 11:46, Vijay Sankar wrote: > apps1# vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq7/ohci0 30 > irq5/ehci01280 > irq10/pciide1 126946 > irq5/azalia0 576

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Vijay Sankar wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:46, Marc Balmer wrote: Claudio Jeker wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0600, Beavis wrote: A suggestion would be to enable softdep on your /etc/fstab softdep is nice but running without it does not make a core 2 duo as slow as a PIII

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Vijay Sankar
On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:46, Marc Balmer wrote: > Claudio Jeker wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0600, Beavis wrote: > >> A suggestion would be to enable softdep on your /etc/fstab > > > > softdep is nice but running without it does not make a core 2 duo as slow > > as a PIII. >

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Vijay Sankar
On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:19, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0600, Beavis wrote: > > A suggestion would be to enable softdep on your /etc/fstab > > softdep is nice but running without it does not make a core 2 duo as slow > as a PIII. > > A good sugestion would be t

Re: Performance Statistics: -current

2007-01-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Good day, > > I purchased a new server two days ago so that I can help test applications > like OpenOffice, Asterisk, and gCompris. It has Core 2 Duo 6400, 4GB of RAM, > reasonable disk space etc. > > Compiling the kernel took about 25 minutes. > Afte