I have spent quite a bit of effort over the past few months on benchmarking the performance of UFS filesystems on FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and 6.x, with UP and SMP hardware. The results are quite interesting and reveal both the enormous progress made in SMP performance and scalability with the release of FreeBSD 6.0, and a remaining performance limitation which should direct future work. I am planning to write up these observations, and BSDCan should be a good venue for presenting the results.

Depending on my time and hardware availability, I may also be able to extend the analysis to cover other BSD versions.

speaker: Kris Kennaway

location: SITE A0150