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Kris Kennaway - New features in FreeBSD 7

New Features in FreeBSD 7.0
The main new feature has to do with multi-processor support.
Multi-processor support began back in FreeBSD 5.0 and is finally finished in 7.0.
The performance graphs for 7.0 with the new scheduler for 8 Processors look very nice.
He recommends switching to the ULE scheduler by recompiling your kernel, because it will not be the default scheduler.

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FreeBSD Profiling, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008

Kris presents some tools to help evaluate performance on FreeBSD and help you figure out what to fix. He explains that performance is a relative term to the workload you are running. A high performance web server may mean nothing to you if your workload is a database.

One of the first things  he recommends is identifying the bottleneck. He lists several things that are common trouble areas and notes that the problem could be from an external source.