Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, oizs wrote: Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:27:05 +0200 From: oizs To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues Im using the Samsung F3 disks, which can do 140MB/s sequentially. I have tried different raids raid0 will do just as bad as raid5. I

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research: Uncle Lawrence needs YOU!

2010-06-19 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Hi Lev, On 06/19/10 16:26, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Lawrence. You wrote 19 июня 2010 г., 07:27:30: Amount of feedback received thus far: nichts, nil, nada I wanted to help you, but here is one problem: I dont have any traffic-loaded 9-CURRENT machines. I have some not-so-critica

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread pluknet
On 19 June 2010 11:17, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > > Have you enabled the disk caches as well? > Something like: > MegaCli -LdSetProp Cached -LALL -a0 > MegaCli -LdSetProp NORA -LALL -a0 > MegaCli -LdSetProp WB -LALL -a0 > MegaCli -LdSetProp -EnDskCache -LALL -a0 > (Only if having a USV of cours

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research

2010-06-19 Thread pluknet
On 13 June 2010 12:12, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > Hi all, > > The time has come to solicit some external testing for my SIFTR tool. I'm > hoping to commit it within a week or so unless problems are discovered. > > SIFTR is a kernel module that logs a range of statistics on active TCP > connections

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 18.06.2010 01:50, oizs wrote: > Hi, > > I've bought a Dell Perc 5/i because I couldn't make the onboard marvell > 88sx7042 work with 8.0/8.1 or current, but as lucky as I am, the best I > can do with 4x1.5tb samsung in raid5 is 60MB/s writes and 90MB/s reads, > with bbu/write-back/adaptive-read

[head tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2010-06-19 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-06-19 08:40:45 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-06-19 08:40:45 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for powerpc/powerpc TB --- 2010-06-19 08:40:45 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-06-19 08:40:49 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-06-19 08:40:49 - /usr

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread oizs
I tried almost everything raid 0 1 5 10 with all kind of stripes 32/64/128 and settings direct io/cached/read-ahead/wt/wb/disk-cache but nothing seems to work. I changed the card to another dell perc 5 which had an older firmware. Tried 4 kind of motherboards even tried changing the os to linux

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, oizs wrote: > I tried almost everything raid 0 1 5 10 with all kind of stripes 32/64/128 > and settings direct io/cached/read-ahead/wt/wb/disk-cache but nothing seems > to work. > I changed the card to another dell perc 5 which had an older firmware. Tried > 4 kind

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread oizs
Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing applications, I don't think that would be the case. -zsozso On 2010.06.19. 13:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, oizs wrote: I tried almost everything raid 0 1 5 10 with all kind of stripes 3

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, oizs wrote: > Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing > applications, I don't think that would be the case. > > On 2010.06.19. 13:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, oizs  wrote: >> >>> >>> I tried almos

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, oizs wrote: >> Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing >> applications, I don't think that would be the case. >> >> On 2010.06.19. 13:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> >>> On Sat

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, pluknet wrote: ... MegaCli -LdSetProp Cached -LALL -a0 MegaCli -LdSetProp NORA -LALL -a0 MegaCli -LdSetProp WB -LALL -a0 MegaCli -LdSetProp -EnDskCache -LALL -a0 (Only if having a USV of course) Dunno if there is a mfiutil equivalent though. Hi. That would be: mfiutil cac

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 19.06.2010 11:58, oizs wrote: > I tried almost everything raid 0 1 5 10 with all kind of stripes > 32/64/128 and settings direct io/cached/read-ahead/wt/wb/disk-cache but > nothing seems to work. > I changed the card to another dell perc 5 which had an older firmware. > Tried 4 kind of motherboa

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research

2010-06-19 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Hi Pluknet, On 06/19/10 18:48, pluknet wrote: [snip] Hi. I'm seeing this right after enabling siftr via sysctl and changing ppl. Sorry, if that was already discussed, known or unrelated (since em is in locking chain). lock order reversal: 1st 0x80e51568 PFil hook read/write mutex (PF

only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1

2010-06-19 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hi all, I got my hands on a t60 with 4GB of RAM (BIOS displays it) And I installed 8.1-RC1 on it: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 #0: Mon Jun 14 13:40:28 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU

Re: only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1

2010-06-19 Thread Andrey Fesenko
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Hi all, > > I got my hands on a t60 with 4GB of RAM (BIOS displays it) > > And I installed 8.1-RC1 on it: > > FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 #0: Mon Jun 14 13:40:28 UTC 2010 >    r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > Timecounter "

Re: only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1

2010-06-19 Thread Andreas Tobler
On 19.06.10 19:27, Andrey Fesenko wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: Hi all, I got my hands on a t60 with 4GB of RAM (BIOS displays it) And I installed 8.1-RC1 on it: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 #0: Mon Jun 14 13:40:28 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/s

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research: Uncle Lawrence needs YOU!

2010-06-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 06/13/10 18:12, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > > The time has come to solicit some external testing for my SIFTR tool. > > I'm hoping to commit it within a week or so unless problems are discovered. > > I'm interested in all feedback and reports of success/failure, along

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research: Uncle Lawrence needs YOU!

2010-06-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Fabian Keil wrote: > Lawrence Stewart wrote: > > > On 06/13/10 18:12, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > > > > The time has come to solicit some external testing for my SIFTR tool. > > > I'm hoping to commit it within a week or so unless problems are > > > discovered. > > > > I'm interested in all fe

RE: only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1

2010-06-19 Thread John Lists Tate
This is likely related to shared memory for your video card. Often you can turn down how much it gets from the BIOS. www.johntate.org This address can recieve heavy traffic. To give your messages priority please put PERSONALX at the start of the subject line. This will allow

[patch] Unbreak libgssapi and upgrade for heimdal-1.1

2010-06-19 Thread Benjamin Lee
Hello, The following patch unbreaks libgssapi and upgrades it to be consistent with the previous heimdal-1.1 merge: http://www.b1c1l1.com/media/patches/libgssapi-9.0-CURRENT.diff.bz2 http://www.b1c1l1.com/media/patches/libgssapi-8.1-STABLE.diff.bz2 Currently, libgssapi is out of date because it

Re: only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1

2010-06-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/06/2010 20:16 Andreas Tobler said the following: > Hi all, > > I got my hands on a t60 with 4GB of RAM (BIOS displays it) > > And I installed 8.1-RC1 on it: > > FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 #0: Mon Jun 14 13:40:28 UTC 2010 > r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > Timecounte

[head tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

2010-06-19 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-06-19 20:50:01 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-06-19 20:50:01 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for arm/arm TB --- 2010-06-19 20:50:01 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-06-19 20:50:07 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-06-19 20:50:07 - /usr/bin/csu

[head tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2010-06-19 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-06-19 23:21:07 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-06-19 23:21:07 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for powerpc/powerpc TB --- 2010-06-19 23:21:07 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-06-19 23:21:11 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-06-19 23:21:11 - /usr

Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research: Uncle Lawrence needs YOU!

2010-06-19 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Hi Fabian, Thank you for the the report. This is indeed an issue I've never seen before and exactly the sort of thing I wanted to uncover. On 06/20/10 03:58, Fabian Keil wrote: Lawrence Stewart wrote: On 06/13/10 18:12, Lawrence Stewart wrote: The time has come to solicit some external

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Two big things can affect RAID-5 performance: 1. Battery backup. If you don't have a working battery attached to the card, it will turn off the write-back cache, no matter what you do. Check this. If you're unsure, use the mfiutil tool that I added to FreeBSD a few months ago and send me th

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 19, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, oizs wrote: >>> Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing >>> applications, I don't think that would be the case. >>> >>>

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Scott Long wrote: > On Jun 19, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, oizs wrote: Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing ap

Re: RFC: New event timers infrastructure

2010-06-19 Thread Alexander Motin
Brandon Gooch wrote: > I've been testing these patches since the first iteration > (et.20100606), and I haven't discovered any related issues. Thank you! > I am unclear about the number of interrupts I should expect from the > hpet0 device (compared to the 99 from the rtc at 100Hz), so here is >