Re: Re[2]: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
: :Any plan to MFC? I am interesting to see it in 4.3-RELEASE. : :-- :David Xu It will definitely not go in until after the release. It's still experimental (in our tree). -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: Re[2]: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, David Xu wrote: [dirpref stuff] > Any plan to MFC? I am interesting to see it in 4.3-RELEASE. I'm pretty sure it won't be in 4.3-RELEASE. In case you didn't realize, RELENG_4 has been in code freeze for some weeks now, preparing for a release next week. "Code freeze

Re[2]: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread David Xu
Hello Matt, Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 2:24:35 AM, you wrote: :>> I'm not 100% convinced about the algorithm to avoid clusters filling :>> up with directory-only entries (it looks like a worst-case would fill :>> a cluster with 50% directories and 50% files leaving a bad layout when :>> the d

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
> Yup, Kirk committed it. I really like the changes -- in the old days > disk caches were tiny and directories were not well cached on top of that. > It made sense to try to keep directories close to their files. So I'm all excited now at the progress that ufs/ffs are making recently

RE: Problems with fsck after dirpref changes

2001-04-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Apr-01 Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen wrote: > > Is it me fsck'ing up, or is fsck(8) lacking behind in the > dirpref changes? > > > Automatic boot in progress... > /dev/da0s1a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN > FIRST ALTERNATE > > /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED

Problems with fsck after dirpref changes

2001-04-10 Thread Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen
Is it me fsck'ing up, or is fsck(8) lacking behind in the dirpref changes? Automatic boot in progress... /dev/da0s1a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. /dev/da0s1a: Automatic file s

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
:Why VMIO dir works better if directories are placed close to each other? I :think it only makes the cache data of an individual directory stay in the :memory longer. Is there a way to measure the effectiveness of the disk :drive's cache? : :-Zhihui I wasn't being clear enough. There are tw

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Brian Somers
> Why VMIO dir works better if directories are placed close to each other? I > think it only makes the cache data of an individual directory stay in the > memory longer. Is there a way to measure the effectiveness of the disk > drive's cache? The real performance gain is seen when doing stuff wi

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :> I'm not 100% convinced about the algorithm to avoid clusters filling > :> up with directory-only entries (it looks like a worst-case would fill > :> a cluster with 50% directories and 50% files leaving a bad layout when > :> the directories are po

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
:> I'm not 100% convinced about the algorithm to avoid clusters filling :> up with directory-only entries (it looks like a worst-case would fill :> a cluster with 50% directories and 50% files leaving a bad layout when :> the directories are populated further), but then the non-dirpref :> sche

Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind

2001-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:49:59PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Question: Does the rpcbind program in -current have the same problem > > or has it already been fixed by whomever you imported the code from? > > (If it hasn't been fixed I'll be happy to fix it. I'm hoping it has,

Re: Panic within sound driver

2001-04-10 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Cameron Grant: > fix just committed, sys/dev/sound/isa/ad1816.c rev 1.18. > > you must be the only freebsd user on the planet with an ad1816. :) Works fine BTW, thanks to you two. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/ITM -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr 5

Re: Panic within sound driver

2001-04-10 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Cameron Grant: > fix just committed, sys/dev/sound/isa/ad1816.c rev 1.18. > > you must be the only freebsd user on the planet with an ad1816. :) That's what I was thinking :) Thanks, I'll just reboot now to test the patch. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/ITM -=- [EMAIL

Re: Panic within sound driver

2001-04-10 Thread Cameron Grant
> Stopped at _mtx_lock_sleep+0x2e2: movb 0x1d5(%edx),%al > _mtx_lock_sleep > snd_mtxlock > ad1816_lock fix just committed, sys/dev/sound/isa/ad1816.c rev 1.18. you must be the only freebsd user on the planet with an ad1816. :) -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: Panic within sound driver

2001-04-10 Thread George Reid
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Stopped at _mtx_lock_sleep+0x2e2: movb 0x1d5(%edx),%al > _mtx_lock_sleep > snd_mtxlock > ad1816_lock Following patch should fix, I'll commit this to -current later. - greid Index: ad1816.c =

Panic within sound driver

2001-04-10 Thread Ollivier Robert
I systematically get the following panic since the end of March at boot time: Kernel trap 12 with interrupt disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x65656e48XXX een8 XXX fault code = supervisor read, page not present ins

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-10 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > > The second improvement, contributed by > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], is a new directory allocation policy (codenamed > > "dirpref"). Coupled with soft updates, the new dirpref code offers up > > to a 60x speed increase in gluk's tests, documented here:" > > > > >ht