Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-30 Thread James Carlson
Jason Matthews wrote: > > So I have determined the trigger event for the "resets" in the response > times. It appears that there is some sort of memory leak in the kernel. When > memory utilization gets very high, I am not sure how high but it is around a > few hundred bytes on the freelists with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-30 Thread Jason Matthews
So I have determined the trigger event for the "resets" in the response times. It appears that there is some sort of memory leak in the kernel. When memory utilization gets very high, I am not sure how high but it is around a few hundred bytes on the freelists with zfs data near zero, the reset c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
Jason Matthews wrote: >> Have you tried isolating other components? Is the behavior the same on >> all switch ports? Does it differ if you're connected to a different >> brand of switch? > > So I have four servers performing this particular role. Three of them, > slowly and quietly march to thei

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-23 Thread Jason Matthews
From: Lou Picciano [mailto:loupicci...@comcast.net] > Yes, Jason, now that James has mentioned the 'Interrupt Storm' matter... > You've piqued my interest. Any chance you're having all these problems on > a SandyBridge system? Would love to hear more. In our case, we'd seen > in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-23 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] > It has a lot of tunables. First, there are the ones documented in > /kernel/drv/igb.conf. Of those, perhaps the most interesting is > flow_control. It looks like the hardware acceleration ones here are the >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-20 Thread Lou Picciano
Cc: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:26:30 PM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot On 01/17/12 14:01, Jason Matthews wrote: >> Another fairly likely possibility would be the hardware offload >> features that some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-19 Thread James Carlson
On 01/17/12 14:01, Jason Matthews wrote: >> Another fairly likely possibility would be the hardware offload >> features that some drivers can use -- checksum and LSO. If the >> driver you're using can turn off these features, I strongly >> recommend trying that. I'd quickly run out of appendage

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-17 Thread Jason Matthews
James Carlson wrote: > I don't know what is causing the problem you're seeing, but I do > have some guesses. > > Assuming it affects all packets, and not just those of a particular > type, the slow packet delivery sounds a bit like either a driver problem > or a problem with the (Crossbow-intro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2011-12-31 Thread James Carlson
On 12/31/2011 1:27 AM, Jason Matthews wrote: > As a follow up, I have determined that crossbow is not at fault for the > degradation of the network stack performance. As it turns out, the shared > stack fails much faster than multiple zones with exclusive-ip. For what it's worth, although VNICs ar

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2011-12-21 Thread Jason Matthews
I have four web servers running two ip exclusive zones where nginx is the primary application. The systems have 16gb of ram, 1 L5630, on Intel S5500UR motherboards with onboard 82575EB Ethernet controllers. The load from the internet comes via round robin DNS. The four servers divvy up a high