Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:27:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Well, I have tracked the problem down a bit. It happens when the system > runs out of memory and starts to use the swap file. The glimpse indexing > operation is very memory intensive and under V6 it simply crawls when it > starts pa

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Feb-12 18:27:47 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >This is not really a surprise. I know how running out of memory slows >things down. What does bother me is why it went from 6 hours in V4 14 >hours on V6. It could be that glimpse's memory access pattern makes it very sensitive to the avail

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-02-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Kevin Oberman wrote: > I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to > 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, > RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. > > This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. > The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:52:03 -0500 > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Dec-14 16:17:38 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no >performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but >enables things like optimized bcopy. This doesn't quite mesh with my reading of -current and -stable. The follow

kernel cpu entries (was: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable)

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized. Is there anything in the handbook that co

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Is that documented? In /sys/i386/conf/NOTES I see: # You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:34:04 -0500 > > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm,

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:34:04 -0500 > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm, > > atkbd0 and ichsmb) that are still marked as GIANT-LOCKED, but I'm not

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm, > atkbd0 and ichsmb) that are still marked as GIANT-LOCKED, but I'm not > using the USB very often. And I'm not using pcm or ichsmb during the > dump, either. I thin

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:17:38 -0700 > From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to > > 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, > > RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. > > > > This system

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2 chips

Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2 chipset. 256 MB of memory.