Category Archives: NetBSD

My view on the NetBSD operating system

RAID and file system performance tuning

Posted on 25 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

The last time I tested software RAID 1 under NetBSD I wasn’t really satisfied with the performance. Especially file system operations were much slower than I expected. Resulting from that my current home server uses an Intel SRCS14L RAID Controller … Continue reading →

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Hackathon 11

Posted on 26 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

David Holland organised NetBSD’s Hackathon 11 at the last weekend. The goal was to fix bugs in preparation for the NetBSD 5.0 release. I decided that this was the best opportunity to fix PR kern/38100 which had rendered my ULTRA60 … Continue reading →

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NetBSD/xen I/O Performance

Posted on 23 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

In the past NetBSD has been reported to deliver poor I/O performance when running under the Xen hypervisor. Because I’m considering running Xen on my home server in future I ran some benchmarks under NetBSD/xen myself recently. I used my … Continue reading →

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