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 th

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 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

PostgreSQL performance scaling

2010-11-21 Thread Ivan Voras
This is not a request for help but a report, in case it helps developers or someone in the future. The setup is: AMD64 machine, 24 GB RAM, 2x6-core Xeon CPU + HTT (24 logical CPUs) FreeBSD 8.1-stable, AMD64 PostgreSQL 9.0.1, 10 GB shared buffers, using pgbench with a scale factor of 500 (7.5 GB

Re: PostgreSQL performance scaling

2010-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/22/10 17:37, David Xu wrote: Mark Felder wrote: I recommend posting this on the Postgres performance list, too. Regards, Mark I think if PostgreSQL uses semaphore for inter-process locking, it might be a good idea to use POSIX semaphore exits in our head branch, the new POSIX semap

Re: PostgreSQL performance scaling

2010-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/23/10 01:26, Ivan Voras wrote: On 11/22/10 17:37, David Xu wrote: Mark Felder wrote: I recommend posting this on the Postgres performance list, too. Regards, Mark I think if PostgreSQL uses semaphore for inter-process locking, it might be a good idea to use POSIX semaphore exits

Re: PostgreSQL performance scaling

2010-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 23 November 2010 10:35, David Xu wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> and the overall behaviour is similar - the processes spend a lot of time >> in "sbwait" and "ksem" states. >> > Strange, the POSIX semaphore in head branch does not use ksem, it is

Re: Poor RAID performance demystified

2010-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/25/10 10:20, Yar Tikhiy wrote: If you still need greater write performance on tiny transactions, consider getting a battery backup unit (BBU) for your RAID adapter. Quite remarkably, HP refer to them as "Write-back Cache Enablers" because installing one is the only way to get an HP RAID a

Re: LLVM/CLANG and AMD GPU support, FreeBSD again excluded?

2010-12-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/06/10 17:31, O. Hartmann wrote: I know, the essential backend of this chain will be the AMD graphics card driver with its CAL compiler generating the binary code. This is probably the biggest obstacle - AMD/ATI support for FreeBSD is terrible. Specifically in this case, there is no vend

Re: tunning disk cache for pgsql?

2011-01-05 Thread Ivan Voras
On 31/12/2010 10:06, Nicolas Haller wrote: Someone knows if there is a page which explains FreeBSD mechanisms about memory and fs cache management? I think I must read something on it :-) I don't think there's a single up to date document describing all of it, but it's conceptually simple and

Re: Phoronix comparision of HAMMER, UFS, ZFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/01/2011 16:23, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi, Having in mind that a SAS enterprise disk normally can handle 150-180IOPS, this benchmark is testing something else ;) It depends - since ZFS is logging all the time it doesn't have to seek as much; if all transactions are WRITE and given sequen

Re: Phoronix comparision of HAMMER, UFS, ZFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/01/2011 14:07, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:49:08 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: It depends - since ZFS is logging all the time it doesn't have to seek as much; if all transactions are WRITE and given sequentially, they will be written to the drive sequentially, even with

Re: what is g_vfs_done() and error = 6?? how to fix it??

2011-04-04 Thread Ivan Voras
On 04/04/2011 06:30, binto wrote: I got error message& my server suddenly drop : g_vfs_done() error = 6 g_vfs_done(): ad10s2a[READ(offset=1348599808, length=16384)]error = 6 anyone can help me please?? This is the wrong list for this question. Better ask on stable@ or file-systems@ For

Re: tlb shootdown

2011-06-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/06/2011 13:11, Andriy Gapon wrote: Anyone knows of a benchmark/test that can measure/demonstrate difference in tlb shootdown performance (or its lack)? The "tlb" utility from lmbench may help you. ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: tlb shootdown

2011-06-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On the second reading, if you are asking how fast a shootdown operation itself is, then yes, it will probably not help you :) -- Sent from my Android phone, please excuse my brevity. Andriy Gapon wrote: on 02/06/2011 15:02 Ivan Voras said the following: > On 01/06/2011 13:11, Andriy Ga

Re: tlb shootdown

2011-06-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 2 June 2011 16:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 02/06/2011 15:02 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 01/06/2011 13:11, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> >>> Anyone knows of a benchmark/test that can measure/demonstrate difference in >>> tlb >>> shootdown perfo

Re: LLVM/CLANG and several OpenCL projects: FreeBSD or any *BSD developer involved?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/10/2011 08:30, Hartmann, O. wrote: > As I'm not a developer, but for scientific purposes highly interested in > using GPUs, the only way of doing HPC computing at the moment is with > nVidias TESLA/nVidia consumer graphics cards and LINUX, since on Linux > one willing to use the GPU has the n

Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Markowskiwrote: (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU), hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16 If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16 kernel threads for queue processing? __

Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 24/01/2012 17:53, Marcin Markowski wrote: On 24.01.2012 14:22, Ivan Voras wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Markowskiwrote: (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU), hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16 If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn&#

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD scheduler benchmarks

2012-01-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28/01/2012 23:40, Florian Smeets wrote: The conclusion right now seems to be that ULE is faster for database workload, I've done the same benchmarks with Bullet Cache last year and 4BSD is *ridiculously* inefficient and slow for this specific workload which involves a lot of inter-thread

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/08/2012 17:22, Alan Cox wrote: > Try setting kern.maxbcache to two billion and adding 50 billion to the > setting of vm.kmem_size{,_max}. Just as a side-note: unless it has some side-effects, it is probably worth increasing these tunables by default, as RAM is very cheap again. 512 GB in a

Re: Outgoing mail server performance

2013-07-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/07/2013 18:19, TJ wrote: > Hi Guys, > i am looking for some advise to help get the best out of one of my severs. > It is a Dell PowerEdge R420,32GB,2x8c CPU and igb nics. > Its primary purpose is to send outgoing mail it can send up to 3 millon > emails a day and it running exim. > I am rela

Re: Apparent performance regression 8.3@ -> 8.4@r255966?

2013-10-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/10/2013 19:28, David Wolfskill wrote:> At work, we have a bunch of machines that developers use to build some > software. The machines presently run FreeBSD/amd64 8.3-STABLE @rxx > (with a few local patches, which have since been committed to stable/8), > and the software is built within

Re: PostgreSQL performance on FreeBSD

2014-07-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 27/06/2014 14:56, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > Hi, > I did some measurements and hacks to see about the performance and > scalability of PostgreSQL 9.3 on FreeBSD, sponsored by The FreeBSD > Foundation. > > The results are described in https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf. > The uncommitted p

Re: PostgreSQL performance on FreeBSD

2014-07-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 8 July 2014 13:41, Mark Felder wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:58, Ivan Voras wrote: >> I'm waiting to upgrade some PostgreSQL machines running FreeBSD 9 to >> FreeBSD 10 - are the patches committed yet / will they be committed for >> 10.1? >> > >

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