Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. could you point to some URL/explain what's the actual difference.

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Kris Kennaway wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. could you point to some URL/explain what's

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. could you point to some

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I wanted to ask if the new ULE scheduler will benefit from having four cores on the CPU, meaning that if I have many concurrent tasks, is it able to efficiently spread the load over all available cores?

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 9/14/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm about to purchase a new system for myself. It will dual-boot Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I wanted to ask if

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 9/14/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm about to purchase a new system for myself. It will dual-boot Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 9/14/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm about to purchase a new system for myself. It will dual-boot Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
In general, if you are running a multi-process or multi-threaded workload, FreeBSD 7 will be able to make good use of 8 CPU cores. Over the past 2 years we have done extensive benchmarking and optimizations that have resulted in *huge* performance improvements on many common workloads on

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: In general, if you are running a multi-process or multi-threaded workload, FreeBSD 7 will be able to make good use of 8 CPU cores. Over the past 2 years we have done extensive benchmarking and optimizations that have resulted in *huge* performance improvements on many common

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. Great, thanks for the info. Good to know, I'll be sure to use ULE when

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. Great, thanks for the info. Good to know, I'll be

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2 also (I'd heard that was the case

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2 also (I'd

Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-14 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello, I'm about to purchase a new system for myself. It will dual-boot Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I wanted to ask if the new ULE scheduler will benefit from having four cores on the CPU, meaning that if I have many concurrent tasks,