On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:13:46AM +0000, Holger Kipp wrote: > I haven't found an overview about the current timeline > regarding specific devices. As we are going to use a few > systems with 5-CURRENT for customer production environment > (webservers), can anyone comment on planned improvements > for the next few days/weeks (if any), especially > > - GIANT removal for ciss and bge (the others as mentioned by > dmesg are npx, acpi, ohci and atkbd). > > - Other improvements regarding HTT and scheduling? > > currently, we have 11.3 web pages per second with SCHED_4BSD > 11.5 web pages per second with SCHED_ULE > with 0% idle under SCHED_4BSD, 5-7% idle under SCHED_ULE. > (this is without witness or invariants, of course) > (under 4.9-STABLE numbers are slightly below 11) Aspects of network locking are actively being addressed by Robert Watson and collaborators. If you're willing to test the patches, they're here: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/ Some performance numbers from real-world applications would surely be welcomed. I've been running them on ~35 heavily loaded machines (only a few SMP) with good results (i.e. no panics for a few days, I haven't tried to measure performance) Kris
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