Tracking Historical Performance- January 23, 2008 "I'd like to send a small update on my progress on the Performance Tracker project," noted Erik Cederstrand on the FreeBSD -current mailing list. He continued, "I now have a small setup of a server and a slave chugging along, currently collecting data. I'm following CURRENT and collecting results from super-smack and unixbench." The project performs regular benchmarks of the FreeBSD -current source tree using Unixbench and Super Smack, allowing you to chart the results over time. Erik...http://kerneltrap.org/FreeBSD/Tracking_Historical_Performance ZFS Stability- January 10, 2008 A recent thread on the FreeBSD -current mailing list discussed the stability of ZFS on FreeBSD. Scott Long noted that ZFS requires proper tuning to be stable: "I guess what makes me mad about ZFS is that it's all-or-nothing; either it works, or it crashes. It doesn't automatically recognize limits and make adjustments or sacrifices when it reaches those limits, it just crashes. Wanting multiple gigabytes of RAM for caching in order to optimize performance is great, but crashing when it...http://kerneltrap.org/FreeBSD/ZFS_Stability |