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 Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:36 am Post subject: DragonFly BSD gets a new CPU scheduler, equals Linux(almost) |
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http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2012-September/000050.html
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The result is an IMMENSE improvement in postgres benchmarks as well as
across-the-board improvements in performance under load. We pretty
much outstrip the other BSDs now and we get fairly close (though do
not quite beat) the higher-end linux benchmarks.
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Excellent news. The years of work on a unique SMP architecture is coming to fruition. One should mention that DFBSD is the smallest of all the major BSDs. Hopefully graphs will follow soon.
Graphs:
http://dl.wolfpond.org/benchs/Pg-benchmarks.2012-10.pdf
One thing to note is that Postgres recently switched from using Sys-V shared memory to mmap. Dragonfly was already performing well with Sys-V shared memory.
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You know, I would be all over this if I could figure out how to boot it from a flash drive. Using dd doesn't work. Does a boot loader have to be installed on the flash drive too?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | | You know, I would be all over this if I could figure out how to boot it from a flash drive. Using dd doesn't work. Does a boot loader have to be installed on the flash drive too? |
I use sys-boot/unetbootin it installs boot loader and whatever disc image on a flash memory. |
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | | You know, I would be all over this if I could figure out how to boot it from a flash drive. Using dd doesn't work. Does a boot loader have to be installed on the flash drive too? |
If you want to experiment with it make sure you get the development branch. Very soon we will also have new USB stack so if you're keyboard or mouse isn't detected, give it another month.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| petrjanda wrote: |
If you want to experiment with it make sure you get the development branch. Very soon we will also have new USB stack so if you're keyboard or mouse isn't detected, give it another month. |
I don't have either a usb keyboard or mouse. I just have no way to install it from a flash drive.
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GOOD GOD! I just installed this in qemu-kvm and it is FAST, even with only one processor in a virtual machine. I never should have done this. It makes me want to run it on my hardware even more.
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Theres still some changes being done to the scheduler so maybe give it a few days for it to stabilize,
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Erm...read the page again. It supports ~BSDs. |
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| sikpuppy wrote: |
Erm...read the page again. It supports ~BSDs. |
I am not the one here who has issues with reading & comprehension. The pages clearly lists, as supported BSDs, the following:
FreeBSD
6.3
7.0
7.2
8.0
NetBSD
4.0
So we can clearly see CURRENT versions of BSDs are not supported by default. No where on the list of supported BSDs does the term "DragonFlyBSD" appear. So your suggestion to use unetbootin to install DragonFlyBSD on a flash drive is pointless, unhelpful and completely ignores the information found on the unetbootin website itself.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | | sikpuppy wrote: |
Erm...read the page again. It supports ~BSDs. |
I am not the one here who has issues with reading & comprehension. The pages clearly lists, as supported BSDs, the following:
FreeBSD
6.3
7.0
7.2
8.0
NetBSD
4.0
So we can clearly see CURRENT versions of BSDs are not supported by default. No where on the list of supported BSDs does the term "DragonFlyBSD" appear. So your suggestion to use unetbootin to install DragonFlyBSD on a flash drive is pointless, unhelpful and completely ignores the information found on the unetbootin website itself. |
Oh ok. No need to get your panties in a bundle. Good luck getting any help with that attitude  |
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| sikpuppy wrote: |
Oh ok. No need to get your panties in a bundle. Good luck getting any help with that attitude :-) |
Good luck getting anything other than attitude when you spread false, misleading and inaccurate information in help forums. To be honest, admit that BSD support in unetbootin is spotty at best. Admit that of the major BSDs, unetbootin supports NONE of the latest releases. Admit the only 'support' for BSD to be found in unetbootin is for old/ancient versions of BSD. Finally, CHECK YOUR SOURCES before dishing out advice when you know little to nothing of what you speak.
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| petrjanda wrote: | | Theres still some changes being done to the scheduler so maybe give it a few days for it to stabilize, |
I've no doubts the scheduler is fine. DragonFly is only using 1 cpu because I only gave it 1 to use in Aqemu. It really does fly. I would LOVE to have it running on my hardware. I actually like it better than the latest NetBSD release candidate.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| petrjanda wrote: | | Theres still some changes being done to the scheduler so maybe give it a few days for it to stabilize, |
I've no doubts the scheduler is fine. DragonFly is only using 1 cpu because I only gave it 1 to use in Aqemu. It really does fly. I would LOVE to have it running on my hardware. I actually like it better than the latest NetBSD release candidate.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | | sikpuppy wrote: |
Oh ok. No need to get your panties in a bundle. Good luck getting any help with that attitude |
Good luck getting anything other than attitude when you spread false, misleading and inaccurate information in help forums. To be honest, admit that BSD support in unetbootin is spotty at best. Admit that of the major BSDs, unetbootin supports NONE of the latest releases. Admit the only 'support' for BSD to be found in unetbootin is for old/ancient versions of BSD. Finally, CHECK YOUR SOURCES before dishing out advice when you know little to nothing of what you speak. |
What is your problem? Jesus. I gave information in good faith, it's not my fault your OS isn't supported. |
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| sikpuppy wrote: |
What is your problem? |
So when you provide totally wrong information, it is the fault of others when they call you out for it?
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Jesus. I gave information in good faith, |
And that information was wrong.
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it's not my fault your OS isn't supported. |
You are being blamed for offering false, inaccurate and unhelpful advice. There's really no excuse for it either, when a link to documentation was provided in the thread, yet you couldn't be bothered to click it, read it and/or comprehend it.
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This is OTW. I thought we posted inaccurate information all the time.  |
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | | It really does fly. |
When doing what?
(Apologies for this non-rant off-topic post.) |
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Presently trying:
cat NetBSD-6.0_RC2-amd64.iso > /dev/sdd1
If it works for NetBSD, it should also work for DragonFly.
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | Presently trying:
cat NetBSD-6.0_RC2-amd64.iso > /dev/sdd1
If it works for NetBSD, it should also work for DragonFly. |
the dragonfly website says using dd should work. are you sure your bios is set to boot from usb?
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| petrjanda wrote: |
the dragonfly website says using dd should work. are you sure your bios is set to boot from usb? |
It does so by default, which I have verified in the BIOS boot order. When a flash drive is plugged in, a dynamic entry is created in the first place of the boot order.
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I got DragonFly to boot, although I haven't installed it yet. The secret is to not make any partitions on the flash drive first. (This is my first box which intentionally is lacking an optical drive, so I am used to doing installs with CDs.) I used the 3.03 DragonFlyBSD memory stick image. The only way it boots is if I select safe mode. All other options freeze at EHCI detection(?). I first formatted the drive with ext4 file system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd
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mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd1
After that, it booted right up.
I built this box a year ago and put Hardened on the first drive. a normal Gentoo with BFS on the second drive, along with a backup Hardened also on the second drive, which I have since taken to unstable. I intentionally left one spare primary partition at the end of the second drive for BSD. The real point is to play around with pkgsrc again, which I love. The only caveat here is my spare partition for BSD is less than 50GB and any partition less than 50 GB isn't recommended for a Hammer file system, which I am itching to play with now.
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| anyNiXwilldo wrote: | I got DragonFly to boot, although I haven't installed it yet. The secret is to not make any partitions on the flash drive first. (This is my first box which intentionally is lacking an optical drive, so I am used to doing installs with CDs.) I used the 3.03 DragonFlyBSD memory stick image. The only way it boots is if I select safe mode. All other options freeze at EHCI detection(?). I first formatted the drive with ext4 file system:
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You should get the development USB image instead if you want to get all the latest updates, it's usually quite stable. As I mentioned, theres a new USB stack coming soon (the old one doesn't work with a lot of new chips). You should be able to install it by disabling USB2+ in BIOS and then changing /boot/loader.conf to disable loading EHCI, and then re-enable USB2+ in bios. The installation will be limited to using USB1 but it's better than nothing.
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The only caveat here is my spare partition for BSD is less than 50GB and any partition less than 50 GB isn't recommended for a Hammer file system, which I am itching to play with now. |
You can use hammer with less than 50GB just make sure you configure the filesystem(after install) to purge and rebalance data quicker (and hold less history), but even so if all youre doing is experimenting with it, it shouldn't matter anyway.
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isn't that kind of sad that you waste your time with an supposed 'operating system' that can't even get something basic as usb2 right?
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