FreeBSD Performance

This page is dedicated to gathering information about possible performance issues and tweaks for FreeBSD that are posted to this wiki and other sites.

Here are some pages within this wiki with information about improving system performance:

• MySQL Scaling (FreeBSD 7, 2008)
• PerformanceTweaks - Simple performance tweaks
• PmcTools - entry page for PMC performance measurement tools
• WitnessPerformance - a study of impact of WITNESS and INVARIANTS kernel options
• netperf - entry page for general network performance related issues, and also for the FreeBSD's network

• BenchmarkMatrix - Have a benchmark and results? Add them here.

Please read BenchmarkAdvice before running benchmarks.

• http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Scalability%20Update.pdf (describing SMP work for 7.0)
• http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf (describing file system work for 6.0)

• Scalability subproject
• tuning(7) man page (somewhat outdated!)