Re: Excessive memory cache causing performance issues

2024-11-15 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 05:09:17PM +0100, Bambero wrote: > I've tried adjusting kern.bufcachepercent and kern.maxvnodes to limit cache > growth, but the cache still occupies a large portion of memory. The value of kern.bufcachepercent relates to the amount of DMA-accessible RAM that is available f

Excessive memory cache causing performance issues

2024-11-12 Thread Bambero
Hi, I'm encountering an issue with excessive cache usage on my OpenBSD 7.5 hosting server. The setup includes an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D with 128GB RAM and NVMe storage. After a fresh boot, I typically see around 110GB of free memory, but once I initiate a backup with rsync (many files), the cac

Re: OpenBSD (memory management) performance issues

2021-01-29 Thread Marek Klein
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 08:39:46AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:08:40PM +, Marek Klein wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are working on an appliance like product that is based on OpenBSD. > > > Recently we found out that our performance critical C++ program

Re: OpenBSD (memory management) performance issues

2021-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:25:46PM +, Marek Klein wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 08:39:46AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:08:40PM +, Marek Klein wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > We are working on an appliance like product that is based on Ope

Re: OpenBSD (memory management) performance issues

2021-01-27 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 08:39:46AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:08:40PM +, Marek Klein wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We are working on an appliance like product that is based on OpenBSD. > > Recently we found out that our performance critical C++ program is > > ~2.5 ti

OpenBSD (memory management) performance issues

2021-01-27 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, We are working on an appliance like product that is based on OpenBSD. Recently we found out that our performance critical C++ program is ~2.5 times slower on OpenBSD compared to Ubuntu 20.04. The program basically just reads data from stdin, does some transformation of the data, and returns t

Re: OpenBSD (memory management) performance issues

2021-01-26 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:08:40PM +, Marek Klein wrote: > Hi, > > We are working on an appliance like product that is based on OpenBSD. > Recently we found out that our performance critical C++ program is > ~2.5 times slower on OpenBSD compared to Ubuntu 20.04. > > The program basically jus

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-15 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello, Just to clarify Todds / Stefans Email earlier in the chain, (Thanks Stefan and Todd,) disable kvm_intel.preemption_timer on the host (see \ > /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/preemption_timer ) This seems to be buggy in > linux \ > 4.10 and newer disabling intel-kvm preemption_timer wo

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-15 Thread Infoomatic
12. Januar 2018 um 12:48 Uhr > Von: "Stefan Fritsch" > An: Infoomatic > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Betreff: Re: Performance issues as KVM guest? > > Hi, I don't see this issue on my Debian system, but please try two things: * > disable kvm_intel.preemption_timer on

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-12 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Todd, This issue (Virtual hardware issue happens on latest proxmox5.x but not on Proxmox 4.4 ) with 6.2 (and 6.1 for that matter) It is discussed here https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151472854021947&w=2 but in recent versions of Proxmox 5.1 (QEMU/KVM) there were no console freezes (P

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-12 Thread Stefan Fritsch
s I su or login on the console with su, > cpu usage is at 100% - the system freezes. :-/ guess we need some > dedicated BSD machines to host some test-VMs ;-) > > Regards, > Robert > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2018 um 20:32 Uhr > > Von: "Kirill Miazine

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-12 Thread Infoomatic
018 um 20:32 Uhr > Von: "Kirill Miazine" > An: misc@openbsd.org > Betreff: Re: Performance issues as KVM guest? > > * Kent Watsen [2018-01-11 17:38]: > [...] > > > > Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ > > > > p

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-11 Thread Kirill Miazine
* Kent Watsen [2018-01-11 17:38]: [...] > > > Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ > > > patched for Meltdown last weekend I'm seeing significant performance > > > issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It seems okay aft

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-11 Thread Todd C. Miller
This sounds like the same issue as was described here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=151430928212450&w=2 - todd

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-11 Thread Mike Larkin
own last weekend I'm seeing significant performance > > > issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It seems okay after a > > > fresh reboot but then progressively returns to being very slow: for > > > example "sleep 1" may take four seconds, then five

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-11 Thread Kent Watsen
On 1/10/18 1:53 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:51:19PM +, Mark Carroll wrote: Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ patched for Meltdown last weekend I'm seeing significant performance issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-10 Thread Mark Carroll
On 10 Jan 2018, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:51:19PM +, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) >> I wondered, is anybody else seeing significant performance problems with >> OpenBSD (or other BSDs) virtual instances since Meltdown patching? Is >> there anything to tweak at my end or am

Re: Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-10 Thread Mike Larkin
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:51:19PM +, Mark Carroll wrote: > Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ > patched for Meltdown last weekend I'm seeing significant performance > issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It seems okay after a > fres

Performance issues as KVM guest?

2018-01-10 Thread Mark Carroll
Since my hosting provider https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ patched for Meltdown last weekend I'm seeing significant performance issues with an OpenBSD virtual instance there. It seems okay after a fresh reboot but then progressively returns to being very slow: for example "sl

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-31 Thread Kostas Zorbadelos
David Diggles writes: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:44:51PM +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: >> Henning Brauer writes: >> >> > if it is really thread related and not sth small & stupid - try it. > > For testing purposes, do you have pf turned off, or a 1 line pf.conf, like: > pf is disabled duri

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-30 Thread David Diggles
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:44:51PM +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: > Henning Brauer writes: > > > if it is really thread related and not sth small & stupid - try it. For testing purposes, do you have pf turned off, or a 1 line pf.conf, like: pass ?

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Daniel Melameth wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: >> Probably you are aware that OpenBSD doesn't have VMware tools from >> VMware available (they have impact)... > > While I don't think it'd help here, you might want to see vmt(4) and v

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Probably you are aware that OpenBSD doesn't have VMware tools from > VMware available (they have impact)... While I don't think it'd help here, you might want to see vmt(4) and vic(4)...

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Kostas Zorbadelos
Henning Brauer writes: > if it is really thread related and not sth small & stupid - try it. > http://your.favorite.mirror/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/$arch/ > Will do. > also, you'd do yourself much of a favor by using real hardware and not > some crappy emulation of garbage. This is what I have fo

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Henning Brauer
* Kostas Zorbadelos [2012-05-29 11:27]: > here is a followup of an older thread [1] regading the use of OpenBSD in > a large scale DNS anycast setup. To make the long story short, OpenBSD > fails to meet our resolving perfomance needs for the time being. The > main issue (from my understanding) is

Re: Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: > Greetings to all, > > here is a followup of an older thread [1] regading the use of OpenBSD in > a large scale DNS anycast setup. To make the long story short, OpenBSD > fails to meet our resolving perfomance needs for the time being. Th

Large scale DNS anycast setup: OpenBSD performance issues

2012-05-29 Thread Kostas Zorbadelos
Greetings to all, here is a followup of an older thread [1] regading the use of OpenBSD in a large scale DNS anycast setup. To make the long story short, OpenBSD fails to meet our resolving perfomance needs for the time being. The main issue (from my understanding) is the lack of kernel-level thre

Re: video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread Huy Nguyen
Coppa talking to Bacon Le 24 avr. 2012 C 13:50, David Coppa a C)crit : > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:43 PM, George Bacon wrote: > >> nVidia GT240. > > This is the source of all your problems. > > Cheers, > David

Re: video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread George Bacon
Thanks for the fast answer guys. Luckily my motherboard (ASRock G31M-VS2) has integrated Intel GMA 3100. I'll try it next time. I'll experiment with mplayer next time, and definitely look at the settings to get the most out of it.

Re: video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread Brett
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:43:25 -0700 (PDT) George Bacon wrote: > Hi folks, maybe someone can help me with this one. > > I'm having some issues > with video playback, specially HD content. > Audio gets out of sync, Hi George, Some .avi files (from memory I think ones that use mp3 as the audio fo

Re: video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread David Coppa
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Huy Nguyen wrote: > Coppa talking to Bacon Nice one :) Didn't notice it...

Re: video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread David Coppa
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:43 PM, George Bacon wrote: > nVidia GT240. This is the source of all your problems. Cheers, David

video playback performance issues

2012-04-24 Thread George Bacon
Hi folks, maybe someone can help me with this one. I'm having some issues with video playback, specially HD content. Audio gets out of sync, screen tearing and some image corruption. My specs: Core2Duo E6550 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, nVidia GT240. Tested with the latest i386 snapshot, using vlc. However

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Ville Valkonen
Hi, acpiec still freezes (afaik. no acpi related commits lately, excluding the hibernate ones). At times there seems to be a flick with the second ethernet device. I'll try to examine that in a greater detail when I have time. For following snapshots, I've crafted a small script that downloads al

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Hart
Are you still having to disable acpiec? Jay > Hi, > > I've updated to the latest snapshot (dated 25.03.) via Swedish > EU-mirror. Here's updated data in the case of need: > http://weezel.fsck.fi/dump/ > > --- > Ville > > On 26 March 2012 10:28, Ville Valkonen wrote: >> If you need more info plea

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Ville Valkonen
Hi, I've updated to the latest snapshot (dated 25.03.) via Swedish EU-mirror. Here's updated data in the case of need: http://weezel.fsck.fi/dump/ --- Ville On 26 March 2012 10:28, Ville Valkonen wrote: > If you need more info please let me know since I have the similar > machine with acpiec er

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' >>> >>> What about just disabling acpiec? >>> >>> >> You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') >> >> How do I make that stick reboot to reboot?

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' >>> >>> What about just disabling acpiec? >>> >>> >> You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') >> >> How do I make that stick reboot to reboot?

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-03-26, Jay Hart wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: > 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' What about just disabling acpiec? >>> You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') >>> >>>

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-26 Thread Ville Valkonen
If you need more info please let me know since I have the similar machine with acpiec errors. Here's discussion (and data) that I've had before: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132835596005571&w=2 . CPU related "unknown model" messages are obsolete since @jsg provided a patch and it's applied to

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' >>> >>> What about just disabling acpiec? >>> >>> >> You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') >> >> How do I make that stick reboot to reboot?

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >>> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' >> >> What about just disabling acpiec? >> >> > You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') > > How do I make that stick reboot to reboot? Assume I

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Carson Chittom
"Jay Hart" writes: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >>> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' >> >> What about just disabling acpiec? >> >> > > Ted, > > You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') > > How do I make that stick reboot to reboot? Assume I need t

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' > > What about just disabling acpiec? > > Ted, You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;') How do I make that stick reboot to reboot? Assume I need to compile custom kernel? Jay

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' > > What about just disabling acpiec? > > Ted, I'll try that. Didn't know what it. Jay

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Jay Hart
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: >> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' > > What about just disabling acpiec? > > Snappy question section 5.9... got it. Jay

Re: Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote: > 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0' What about just disabling acpiec?

Performance issues

2012-03-25 Thread Jay Hart
Hello Misc, I have a Jetway NC9KDL-2700 mini-itx motherboard, bought it as a rackmountable system from itxdepot.com. The case I have contains two of these boards. Motherboard page: http://www.jetway.com.tw/JW/Peripherals_view.asp?proname=NC9KDL-2700&productid=931 Here are the specs: Intel. Ato

Relayd performance issues

2009-02-09 Thread Claus Larsen
I am having some strange performance issues with a relayd. I have a setup where relayd forward http picture requests to two webservers. If you visit a webpage with the pictures handled by relayd (normally 6 pics), maybe 4 of these will load at once, and the last 2 will load a little slow 1-2 secs

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-28 Thread Damien Miller
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, J Duke wrote: > I realize that the whole fix to this DNS cache poisoning is to have > random ports and random query ids, and that generating good, strong, > random numbers costs cpu cycles and time. Has anyone else noticed the > performance hit? Anything that I can do? Particu

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/26/08, J Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder is anyone is seeing performance issues with the patched DNS in the > late snapshots? http://marc.info/?l=bind-users&m=121726908015389&w=2

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-27 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:12 PM, J Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder is anyone is seeing performance issues with the patched DNS in the > late snapshots? > I installed the July 22 snapshot on our DNS servers, which handle a pretty > heavy load of lookups, mostly fo

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-07-26, J Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I moved back to an earlier version of OpenBSD on the DNS server, and > the Ironport traffic went up to normal, and the DNS lookup failures stopped. > Cpu utilization went back down to around 9%. But I'm vulnerable. Sending spam seems a good way to

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-26 Thread Florian Fuessl
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of J Duke > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:13 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Performance issues with the DNS patch? > > I wonder is anyone is seeing performance issues with the patched DNS in > the > late snapshots? > I installe

Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-26 Thread J Duke
I wonder is anyone is seeing performance issues with the patched DNS in the late snapshots? I installed the July 22 snapshot on our DNS servers, which handle a pretty heavy load of lookups, mostly for anti-spam action. It was running at 45% or higher cpu utilization after the July 22 snapshot was

Re: Performance Issues of Intel Quad Port NIC

2008-01-17 Thread Geoff Steckel
Jonathan Steel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone We recently purchased an Intel PRO/1000 GT Quad Port network card and decided to run some stress tests to make sure it could maintain gigabit connections on all four ports at the same time. I ran the test with five computers and iperf-1.7.0 (ne

Re: Performance Issues of Intel Quad Port NIC

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Cappuccio
GENERIC.MP uses APIC instead of PIC which Microsoft, among others, claims can handle a much higher interrupt load. I was fussing around to make APIC work on single processor kernels in my spare time, but I haven't gotten anywhere yet. What size packets were you using at 900Mbps? 1500 bytes? Thes

Re: Performance Issues of Intel Quad Port NIC

2008-01-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-15 21:19]: > Jonathan Steel wrote: >> Is there any explanation for the speed difference? I have tried tweeking >> some sysctl values to no avail. Is there something else I can test for on >> the card? I'd be happy to run these tests again for any change

Re: Performance Issues of Intel Quad Port NIC

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jonathan Steel wrote: Is there any explanation for the speed difference? I have tried tweeking some sysctl values to no avail. Is there something else I can test for on the card? I'd be happy to run these tests again for any changes that are made. Use 4.2 and Henning did provide details a few t

Performance Issues of Intel Quad Port NIC

2008-01-15 Thread Jonathan Steel
Hi Everyone We recently purchased an Intel PRO/1000 GT Quad Port network card and decided to run some stress tests to make sure it could maintain gigabit connections on all four ports at the same time. I ran the test with five computers and iperf-1.7.0 (newest version of iperf has speed issues wi

Re: Can I please get help debugging performance issues with my IPSec configuration?

2008-01-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/06 10:02, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: > Thank you very much for your swift reply. Using 'scrub on enc0 > max-mss 1310 no-df' immediately solved the problem. > > I have two questions though, since 1310 is smaller than needed, how > do I determine the correct setting to use after max-mss? I

Re: Can I please get help debugging performance issues with my IPSec configuration?

2008-01-06 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
Thank you very much for your swift reply. Using 'scrub on enc0 max-mss 1310 no-df' immediately solved the problem. I have two questions though, since 1310 is smaller than needed, how do I determine the correct setting to use after max-mss? I understand that in theory I want to subtract the leng

Re: Can I please get help debugging performance issues with my IPSec configuration?

2008-01-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/06 03:10, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: > But, loading very complex websites (yahoo, YouTube) takes so long that > the HTTP connection will reset before the browser is done. I can't > figure out why this is happening and didn't find anything similar when > I searched the archives. Sounds like

Can I please get help debugging performance issues with my IPSec configuration?

2008-01-06 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
I have a Sun Blade 100 with OpenBSD 4.2-current (Dec 18). I'm trying to configure it as a router/access point for my home network. The hardware is as shipped from Sun except that I have added an extra network card and a wireless card (re0 and ral0). I can send a dmesg if anyone thinks it would be