Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:36 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:05 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:34 PM 10/27/2010, David Wolfskill wrote: * release/7.1.0, with the following merged in: r186860 from stable/7 r190970 from stable/7 r203072 from head r209964 from stable/7 and using the MAC ke

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:05 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:34 PM 10/27/2010, David Wolfskill wrote: * release/7.1.0, with the following merged in: r186860 from stable/7 r190970 from stable/7 r203072 from head r209964 from stable/7 and using the MAC kernel config * stable/8 @r214029 using the G

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/27/10 13:19, David Wolfskill wrote: >> note 2x drop in performance between outer and inner tracks. > > OK, but I'm not sure how that's likely to work for a multi-spindle RAID > 0 group Unless the RAID controller is trying to be overly smart (i.e. plays with fire) by somehow alternating

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread David Wolfskill
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 01:06:18PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 10/27/10 12:55, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > That *is* a problem, as I cannot justify a migration to a branch > > of FreeBSD that imposes about a 23% penalty in elapsed time on this > > workload. I want folks at work to have more re

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/27/10 12:55, David Wolfskill wrote: > That *is* a problem, as I cannot justify a migration to a branch > of FreeBSD that imposes about a 23% penalty in elapsed time on this > workload. I want folks at work to have more reason to want to use > (newer branches of) FreeBSD, not less. That is

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread David Wolfskill
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:54:07AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > ... > > the 8.x reference machine, and each terminated with a status code of 0: > > > > startstopreal usersys os > > 128867 1288111298 131.14 12.77 17.88 7.1-R+ > > > 1288109542 1288109653 111.26 12.

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-27 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/26/10 19:45, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:03:34PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> ... >> Since you now have the two kernels readily available, can you rule out >> NFS by just repeating the step which involves it in both kernels and >> compare the results? > > On Tue, Oct 2