Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:04:50PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:07:20PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > > $ unset LANG > > - Result: still 80x slower with -i > > $ unset LANG LC_COLLATE > > - Result: still 80x slower with -i > > $ unset LANG LC_CTYPE > > -

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:07:20PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... > $ unset LANG > - Result: still 80x slower with -i > $ unset LANG LC_COLLATE > - Result: still 80x slower with -i > $ unset LANG LC_CTYPE > - Result: normal/fast. > $ unset LC_CTYPE > - Result: still 80x slower with -i >

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:46:04PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > > different is read() op

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Gary Palmer
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > different is read() operations are taking a lot longer -- I haven't had > time to check wit

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2011 21:05, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:49:46PM -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 5 March 2011 20:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:49:46PM -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 5 March 2011 20:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> > This is a strange one, and the more I

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2011 20:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting >> > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow re

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > > different is read(

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > different is read() operations are taking a lot longer -- I haven't had > time to check wit

Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears different is read() operations are taking a lot longer -- I haven't had time to check with ktrace yet), the more strange it got: that's when I found out the behav

7.0 unusual performance issue - vmdaemon hang?

2008-12-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Just had one of hour webservers flag as down here and on investigation the machine seems to be struggling due to a hung vmdaemon process. top is reporting vmdaemon as using a constant 55.57% CPU yet CPU time is not increasing:- last pid: 36492; load averages: 0.04, 0.05, .11 up 89+19:5

Re: NFS Performance Issue

2008-11-26 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We recently found that the Performance of the NFS Client in FreeBSD is >> worse than that in Linux. > > What OS is your nfs-server running? Our NFS server is NetApp. > > You can ommit read- and write-size using tcp-mounts

Re: NFS Performance Issue

2008-11-26 Thread Claus Guttesen
> We recently found that the Performance of the NFS Client in FreeBSD is > worse than that in Linux. What OS is your nfs-server running? > It's about 1/3 of NFS client in Linux. We have tuned TCP recv/send > buffer, and got no gain. The mount parameters are: (We use amd) > rw,nfsv3,lockd,grpid,in

NFS Performance Issue

2008-11-26 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Hi Listers, We recently found that the Performance of the NFS Client in FreeBSD is worse than that in Linux. Linux [/net/iscsi] -jnlin- sudo ls -al /net/iscsi/mysql/blog-2/var/pixblog_2/blogarticle.ibd -rw-rw 1 3306 3306 734003200 2008-11-27 00:13 /net/iscsi/mysql/blog-2/var/pixblog_2/blogart

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Marlatt
韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote: > > You haven't indicated what drives are on that controller, or how (RAID?) > arranged.,, what sort of on-drive or on-controller cahce and policy. > > Nor how you measured the '..performs better', which a single > can often do compared to several of the possible RAID conf

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-26 Thread Ruben van der Zwan
r us (now over 50MB/sec. seq. write). Regards, Ruben van der Zwan Espen Tagestad wrote: Hi, We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av majo

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread 韓家標 Bill Hacker
Espen Tagestad wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Espen Tagestad wrote: We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the dis

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Judge
Espen Tagestad wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Espen Tagestad wrote: We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the dis

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Espen Tagestad
Tom Judge wrote: Espen Tagestad wrote: We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o. On write I get a

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Judge
Espen Tagestad wrote: Hi, We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o. On write I get at max 7-8M

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread 韓家標 Bill Hacker
Espen Tagestad wrote: Hi, We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o. On write I get at max 7-8M

SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Espen Tagestad
Hi, We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o. On write I get at max 7-8MB/sec, while read gives

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-06-11 Thread Scott Long
dmose wrote: > > > Scott Long-2 wrote: >> dmose wrote: >>> >>> Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > Richard Tector wrote: >> Is there any information I could obtain that would be of use to you in >> tracking this one down? > You could maybe cont

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-06-11 Thread dmose
figure these options? >> >> > > Are you asking about FreeBSD or Windows 2000? > > Scott > > _______ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-06-11 Thread Scott Long
dmose wrote: > > > Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >>> Richard Tector wrote: Is there any information I could obtain that would be of use to you in tracking this one down? >>> You could maybe contact the driver's author(s) directly and ask them. >>> Se

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-06-11 Thread dmose
27;m experiencing the same issue win2kx64 environment slow I/O write (read about 65MB/sec) in RAID 1. There is no way to enable caching in the boot BIOS ... anyone hear plans for them to update a version that will allow us to configure these optio

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Judge
Matthew Jacob wrote: I've been trying to get one in my lab. I also am completely saturated with two jobs and a new infant (which is why I'm responding to this at 0100) and was trying to get a box in my lab that evidenced te behaviour. If I get stuck when I actually get time to chase this, I'll as

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've been trying to get one in my lab. I also am completely saturated with two jobs and a new infant (which is why I'm responding to this at 0100) and was trying to get a box in my lab that evidenced te behaviour. If I get stuck when I actually get time to chase this, I'll ask- thanks. On 4/24/07

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-24 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Matthew Jacob wrote: Is there any news on the performance of this card? I personally have not been able to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur whether in Integrated Raid or not. It seems to be related to specific backplanes and drives. It's an important problem to solve I agree. We hav

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-23 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Matthew Jacob wrote: Hi, Is there any news on the performance of this card? I personally have not been able to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur whether in Integrated Raid or not. It seems to be related to specific backplanes and drives. It's an important problem

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Is there any news on the performance of this card? I personally have not been able to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur whether in Integrated Raid or not. It seems to be related to specific backplanes and drives. It's an important problem to solve I agree. __

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Judge
Richard Tector wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Richard Tector wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western Digital 320GB SATA

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Tector
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Richard Tector wrote: A perhaps unrealted issue: I've noticed a large number of messages being produced by the mpt driver after boot occuring approximately every 90 seconds. Apr 1 15:51:43 moses kernel: mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x14 Apr 1 15:51:43 moses

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 4/1/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matthew Jacob wrote: >> > It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. >> > >> > On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm suffering from

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Richard Tector wrote: A perhaps unrealted issue: I've noticed a large number of messages being produced by the mpt driver after boot occuring approximately every 90 seconds. Apr 1 15:51:43 moses kernel: mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x14 Apr 1 15:51:43 moses kernel: mpt0: Unhandl

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Tector
Matthew Jacob wrote: On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: > It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. > > On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 >> with the SAS

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-28 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Matthew Jacob wrote: On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you for the quick reply. Is there any information I could obtain that would be of use to you in tracking this one down? not at the momeny- it's really that I won't have time until april As

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Matthew Jacob
not at the momeny- it's really that I won't have time until april On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: > It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. > > On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm suffering from very slow write perform

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Is there any information I could obtain that would be of use to you in tracking this one down? You could maybe contact the driver's author(s) directly and ask them. See the AUTHORS section of the man page for details. you should h

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > you should have done your homework before saying this and you might > have noticed something;-) Ah, yes, I see now :) My apologies - I only glanced and compared the e-mail addresses of the posters and the authors and arrived to the obvious conclusion :) signature.asc

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Richard Tector wrote: > Is there any information I could obtain that would be of use to you in > tracking this one down? You could maybe contact the driver's author(s) directly and ask them. See the AUTHORS section of the man page for details. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
Matthew Jacob wrote: It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
Ivan Voras wrote: Richard Tector wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western Digital 320GB SATA disks in a RAID1 conf

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Matthew Jacob
It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The contro

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Richard Tector wrote: > I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 > with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or > 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western > Digital 320GB SATA disks in a RAID1 configuration. > Rea

Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western Digital 320GB SATA disks in a RAID1 configuration. Reads approach 65MB/s however wr

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-10 Thread Ewan Todd
> > > >I think I've found the problem: Python uses setjmp/longjmp to protect > >against SIGFPU every time it does floating point operations. The python > >script does not actually use threads, and libpthread assumes > >non-threaded processes are system scope. So, it would end up using the >

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Suleiman Souhlal wrote: Hello, On May 9, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2005-May-09 11:00:18 -0400, Ewan Todd wrote: I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 release. I've read about threading issues, and it

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hi, > > On May 10, 2005, at 1:24 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > No, libc_r wraps execve() and a lot of other syscalls that libpthread > > or libthr don't need to. Take a look at libc_r/uthread/ > > uthread_execve.c > > and you will see it sets the s

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Hi, On May 10, 2005, at 1:24 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote: No, libc_r wraps execve() and a lot of other syscalls that libpthread or libthr don't need to. Take a look at libc_r/uthread/ uthread_execve.c and you will see it sets the signal mask before exec()ing. Couldn't we do the same thing in libpthr

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hello, > > On May 9, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > I don't think that patch is correct. You need the signal mask > > in the kernel to match in case of an exec() after a fork() > > for instance. If the application fork()'s, then chang

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Jonathan Noack wrote: > On 05/09/05 18:47, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>If the process wasn't linked to libpthread, then the longjmp() > >>and setjmp() would still be calling the syscall, so it isn't > >>the syscall itself that is making things slower. You'll notice > >>that ther

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Hello, On May 9, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: I don't think that patch is correct. You need the signal mask in the kernel to match in case of an exec() after a fork() for instance. If the application fork()'s, then changes the signal mask in the child (which is now single threaded), th

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/09/05 18:47, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: I think I've found the problem: Python uses setjmp/longjmp to protect against SIGFPU every time it does floating point operations. The python script does not actually use t

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > I think I've found the problem: Python uses setjmp/longjmp to protect > > against SIGFPU every time it does floating point operations. The > > python script does not actually use threads, and libpthread ass

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > On May 9, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > The threading libraries don't play with the signal mask. In fact, > > libpthread has userland versions of sigprocmask() et. al. and won't > > even make the syscall() unless the threads are system

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Hello, On May 9, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2005-May-09 11:00:18 -0400, Ewan Todd wrote: I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 release. I've read about threading issues, and it seems to me that that is

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/9/2005 1:30 PM, Jonathan Noack wrote: On 5/9/2005 12:31 PM, Pete French wrote: 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? I ju

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Matthias Buelow
Daniel Eischen wrote: > {sig}setjmp(), {sig}longjmp(), A very wild guess.. python is using setjmp/longjmp to implement continuations, tailcalls, or any mechanism similar to that and using that in a loop? mkb. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Mon, 2005-May-09 11:00:18 -0400, Ewan Todd wrote: > >I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 > >release. I've read about threading issues, and it seems to me that > >that is what I'm looking a

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-May-09 11:00:18 -0400, Ewan Todd wrote: >I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 >release. I've read about threading issues, and it seems to me that >that is what I'm looking at, but I'm not confident enough to rule out >that it m

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/9/2005 12:31 PM, Pete French wrote: 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? I just ran a test here with SMP turned of on 5

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hello, > > > I ran ktrace(1) on it, and it appears that python keeps calling > sigprocmask() continually: > > 673 python 0.07 CALL sigprocmask(0x3,0,0x811d11c) > 673 python 0.05 RET sigprocmask 0 > 673 python 0.09 CALL

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Mon, May 9, 2005 1:06 pm, Scott Long said: > 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather > expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by > default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? This is what i get on my system, wh

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Hello, On May 9, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Pete French wrote: 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? I just ran a test here with SMP tur

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Alexander S. Usov
Scott Long wrote: > First of all, make sure that you have WITNESS and INVARIANTS off in your > kernel. You might also want to recompile your kernel with the SMP > option turned off. I can confirm this. I just rerun it on RELENG_5_4 as of yesterday and got 136.52 real80.29 user

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Pete French
> 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather > expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP > turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with > SMP turned off? I just ran a test here with SMP turned of on 5.4-RC4 (GENERIC) I got the follow

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Long
Ewan Todd wrote: 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? I'm pretty sure there's no SMP in this kernel. #cd /usr/src/sys/i38

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Ewan Todd
> > 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather > expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP > turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with > SMP turned off? > I'm pretty sure there's no SMP in this kernel. #cd /usr/src/sys/i386/c

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Long
Ewan Todd wrote: Whereas, the typical result for the new rig looked more like 105.36 real71.10 user33.41 sys ... 10548 involuntary context switches First of all, make sure that you have WITNESS and INVARIANTS off in your kernel. You might also want to recompile your ker

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Ewan Todd
> > > >Whereas, the typical result for the new rig looked more like > > > > 105.36 real71.10 user33.41 sys > > ... > > 10548 involuntary context switches > > > > > > First of all, make sure that you have WITNESS and INVARIANTS off in your > kernel. You might also wan

RE: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Kipp Holger
@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance issue > Whereas, the typical result for the new rig looked more like > > 105.36 real71.10 user33.41 sys ... > 10548 involuntary context switches Now I just ran this test myself. This machine is a 2.4 gig P4 with hyperth

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Pete French
> Whereas, the typical result for the new rig looked more like > > 105.36 real71.10 user33.41 sys ... > 10548 involuntary context switches Now I just ran this test myself. This machine is a 2.4 gig P4 with hyperthreading enabled. Much as I am an AMD fan, I would expect

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:00 AM 09/05/2005, Ewan Todd wrote: Here's the background. I just got a new (to me) AMD machine and put 5.3 release on it. I'd been very happy with the way my old Intel There have been quite a few changes since 5.3. If you are starting fresh, I would strongly recommend going to 5.4 RC4. The

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Long
Ewan Todd wrote: Hi All, I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 release. I've read about threading issues, and it seems to me that that is what I'm looking at, but I'm not confident enough to rule out that it might be a hardware issue, a kernel configur

Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Ewan Todd
Hi All, I have what I think is a serious performance issue with fbsd 5.3 release. I've read about threading issues, and it seems to me that that is what I'm looking at, but I'm not confident enough to rule out that it might be a hardware issue, a kernel configuration issue, or

Re: 5.2.1 performance issue

2004-08-12 Thread Charles Ulrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Yesterday I upgraded my news server from 5.1 to 5.2.1 and ran into > performance problem. > Want to say from the beginning that during upgrade I transferred all > my sysctl and other settings from 5.1 into 5.2.1 You might get a better response from the folks on the freebs