pgbench performance is lagging compared to Linux and DragonflyBSD?

2012-11-05 Thread Yuri
There is the post by DragonflyBSD folks that claims that Linux and DragonflyBSD are quite ahead of FreeBSD on pgbench test on 12 Core 2x Xeon X5650 with 24 threads. Here are their results with graphs:

Re: pgbench performance is lagging compared to Linux and DragonflyBSD?

2012-11-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: There is the post by DragonflyBSD folks that claims that Linux and DragonflyBSD are quite ahead of FreeBSD on pgbench test on 12 Core 2x Xeon X5650 with 24 threads. Here are their results with graphs: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/**

Re: pgbench performance is lagging compared to Linux and DragonflyBSD?

2012-11-05 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
The important item that has been left out (or is just implied as OS level defaults) is sysctl/tunable variables set in the *BSD OSes (on DFly, FreeBSD, and NetBSD). Unfortunately (based on my experience) FreeBSD could be a lot better when it comes to defaults, and more tuning is required to

procstat -v question

2012-11-05 Thread Ian Lepore
In a line of procstat -v output such as this: PID STARTEND PRT RES PRES REF SHD FL TP PATH 60065 0x200c1000 0x201c3000 r-x 1820 17 8 CN vn /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 Does that 182 resident pages mean that the process being displayed is referencing that many pages itself, or