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diff --git a/share/doc/papers/sysperf/1.t b/share/doc/papers/sysperf/1.t new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..88608eef4f0a --- /dev/null +++ b/share/doc/papers/sysperf/1.t @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1985 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)1.t 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/91 +.\" +.ds RH Introduction +.af PN 1 +.bp 1 +.NH +Introduction +.PP +The Berkeley Software Distributions of +.UX +for the VAX have added many new capabilities that were +previously unavailable under +.UX . +The development effort for 4.2BSD concentrated on providing new +facilities, and in getting them to work correctly. +Many new data structures were added to the system to support +these new capabilities. +In addition, +many of the existing data structures and algorithms +were put to new uses or their old functions placed under increased demand. +The effect of these changes was that +mechanisms that were well tuned under 4.1BSD +no longer provided adequate performance for 4.2BSD. +The increased user feedback that came with the release of +4.2BSD and a growing body of experience with the system +highlighted the performance shortcomings of 4.2BSD. +.PP +This paper details the work that we have done since +the release of 4.2BSD to measure the performance of the system, +detect the bottlenecks, +and find solutions to remedy them. +Most of our tuning has been in the context of the real +timesharing systems in our environment. +Rather than using simulated workloads, +we have sought to analyze our tuning efforts under +realistic conditions. +Much of the work has been done in the machine independent parts +of the system, hence these improvements could be applied to +other variants of UNIX with equal success. +All of the changes made have been included in 4.3BSD. +.PP +Section 2 of the paper describes the tools and techniques +available to us for measuring system performance. +In Section 3 we present the results of using these tools, while Section 4 +has the performance improvements +that have been made to the system based on our measurements. +Section 5 highlights the functional enhancements that have +been made to Berkeley UNIX 4.2BSD. +Section 6 discusses some of the security problems that +have been addressed. |