Subject: Re: Thread benchmarks
To: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/02/2007 12:26:48
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:50:16PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 
> With the vmlocking CVS branch and Mindaugas' new scheduler NetBSD peaks
> around 500 TPS. There is a very gradual fall off in the number of TPS
> achieved as the number of connections begins to ramp up. I suspect that
> could be due to a weakness somewhere in the network stack, so I'm hopeful
> that a bit of time spent profiling with large numbers of connections could
> yield good results.
> 

That certainly does look impressive.  Good work.  Do you have any
indication of performance scaling vs number of processors?

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Brett Lymn
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