Re: DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Marcin Cieslak <saper_at_saper.info> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
>
> > Bernhard Fröhlich <decke_at_bluelife.at> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know what's unusual with the DO virtualisation, but vultr just
> > works like a normal server (though they do restrict to virtio devices
> > where applicable rather than emulated harware)
>
> They use Avahi for autodisovery of the IPv4 "link layer" address
> to further boostrap the configuration. Unfortuately avahi-autoipd
> seems to needs lots of dependencies, including gobject-introspection.
>
> bsd-cloudinit is written in Python and they use it to get a proper
> IPv4 addresses. This configuration gets sucked into rc.
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Nikolay Denev wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon_at_orthanc.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Beware that they (DO) do not at all grok ipv6.  They hand out /124s, or
> > > something equally silly.
> > >
> >
> > My DO instance has /64 and I have no problems with using ipv6 to login.
>
> It's /64 formally here, but I am told only to use 16 (sixteen) addresses
> xxxx:2000 ... xxxx:200f
>
> Sounds like neighbour discovery scalability issues?
>
> //Marcin
>

On the timecounter sysctl:

unixbench with TSC-low:
                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        116700.0 25145739.3     2154.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                      55.0     4021.2      731.1
Execl Throughput                                43.0     2334.0      542.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         3960.0     1309.0        3.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1655.0      353.0        2.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks         5800.0     4771.0        8.2
Pipe Throughput                              12440.0  1179433.3      948.1
Pipe-based Context Switching                  4000.0   259704.9      649.3
Process Creation                               126.0     8010.6      635.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                     6.0      538.8      898.0
System Call Overhead                         15000.0   987460.5      658.3
                                                                 =========
     FINAL SCORE                                                     189.7

unixbench with HPET(default):
                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        116700.0 24582513.8     2106.5
Double-Precision Whetstone                      55.0     3941.6      716.7
Execl Throughput                                43.0     2275.7      529.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         3960.0     1102.0        2.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1655.0      259.0        1.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks         5800.0     4604.0        7.9
Pipe Throughput                              12440.0  1186331.6      953.6
Pipe-based Context Switching                  4000.0   255294.8      638.2
Process Creation                               126.0     6451.6      512.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                     6.0      445.8      743.0
System Call Overhead                         15000.0   971475.1      647.7
                                                                 =========
     FINAL SCORE                                                     173.0



--Nikolay