Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
7;t handle something or recieve buffer size is to small? If the window size drops to 0, it means the receive buffer on the receiving system is full and waiting to be flushed by the application. Considering the fact that you're sending 65M per second, a 16M buffer might not be large enough.

Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-16 Thread Bill Moran
Keep in mind that not everyone on the list is interested in every conversation. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. wmo...@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential informat

Re: A specific example of a disk i/o problem

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
-0xff9707ff irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 ad14: 476940MB at ata7-master SATA150 -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-12 Thread Bill Moran
is spotty. And we've seen cards that work in FreeBSD, but do so at far below their claimed throughput. There are apparently some inefficiencies in the drivers. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. wmo...@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
the consumer grade RAID cards, and probably more reliable than most of them as well. Controllers make a huge difference, even in server class RAID (in my experience). There is a significant gap in performance between the good stuff and the good enough stuff. -- Bill Moran http://www.potent

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data (4 million files)

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
ou just need temp files, why doesn't the app clean up its temp files when it's done with them? If you have access to the developers, I think you'll be able to come up with a much better solution by working with them. -- Bill Moran http://www.pote

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Arkadi Shishlov : > Its probably "dirhash' that is not enabled or its cache is too small for the > task. I'm no expert, but I thought dirhash only improved read speed. His bottleneck would be writes. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.co

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
e, then you're comparing apples to atom bombs. If this is a directory that you blow away on a regular schedule, you'd do much better to make it a dedicated partition and simply reformat it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

Re: System perforamance 4.x vs. 5.x and 6.x

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Brett Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm seeing signal 6's on apache and imapd (never happened before) > >> network errors, serious response time errors and gen

Re: System perforamance 4.x vs. 5.x and 6.x

2008-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
dicator that you've compiled binaries that are almost, but not quite compatible with your CPU. If this machine has been 4.X for a while, it's probably old hardware. Make sure you're using the correct CPU definition in your kernel config and in your make configuration. What _is_

Re: tuning for high connection rates

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Moran
re out of ideas for tuning, so we kindly ask for ideas on > tuning the system to bring down the CPU usage from the em and the system > CPU usage. We tried tuning the em int_delay and abs_int_delay but > without success. Enable polling on the interface and see if that helps. See man polli

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Bill Moran
52 157834 1294 115 Final score for writes:21 Final score for reads : 2442 Certainly looks like that RAID card sucks. Unfortunately, I don't know what those mpt0 alerts are about. -- Bill Moran Colla

Re: Where to troubleshoot Intel PRO/1000 performance problems?

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
lar specs (same > > > Ethernet Card) but is a Windows XP box. > > > > Windows should report the interface speed too: unplug the cable, plug it > > again and watch for the fancy popup on the taskbar. Or check the interface > > properties box. > > -- > > Eygen

Re: LINUX vs FreeBSD mysql performance using a large RT database

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Moran
oot.html#PAE Cool information, kind of blows the "FreeBSD's performance sucks" argument out of the water. Thanks for taking the time to run the tests and post! -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-performa

Re: Samba Performance problem

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Moran
one. I can provide the tracefile if anyone is interested. Please post this somewhere and provide a URL. I'm no kernel expert, but I've had success speeding stuff up through ktraces before ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

2006-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
. SCSI/SATA) in addition to the differences in hardware connecting the disks, and the drivers for that hardware. There are dozens of places where the difference could be occurring. I would guess that the drive itself does write caching, and this heavily optimizes async writes, but can't improve

Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
e > on synchonizaton. If you're a Dell man (and already paying the Dell > tax), consider the Sun 1U's. They offer up to 4 cores in a 1U. Lost me here. Are you saying 1U units from Sun? Or does Dell have a 1U called a "Sun"? I am pretty-much locked into Dell - decisi

Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
hwhile or not? I can simulate a test load at any time, but I don't know how to tell whether the cache is the bottleneck of the CPU or not. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f