FreeBSD 8.0 Performance (at Phoronix)

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:49:15 +0200
Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> > to make use of all this new stuff I need to run HEAD ? as former HEAD was born recently as 8.0R and the new stuff in it is big compared to 7.x, I'd like to use it from RELENG_8. is this possible ?
> 
> You need to run recent 8-STABLE and load ahci kernel module. It is not
> included into default GENERIC kernel yet, due to work in progress.
> 8.0-RELEASE also includes some of that code, but on much earlier
> development stage.

ok
 
> > my hardware would be NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard and Seagate ES.2 disks.
> 
> OK. Make sure that you have AHCI SATA mode enabled in BIOS.

just to make sure, disks will be adaX now, right ?

another great reason to move to glabel ASAP :)

thanks,

matheus

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