Re: [perf-discuss] Re: libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Derek Cicero
Eric C. Saxe wrote: Hey look at that. My previous message has been robbed of line breaks and the first part of this thread has gone missing. Looks like the html I embedded really confused things. Here's a more readable version of my last message. I'll let Derek know that this thread needs to b

[perf-discuss] Re: libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Eric C. Saxe
Hey look at that. My previous message has been robbed of line breaks and the first part of this thread has gone missing. Looks like the html I embedded really confused things. Here's a more readable version of my last message. I'll let Derek know that this thread needs to be fixed... -Eric On

[perf-discuss] pipe tests for libMicro

2005-08-09 Thread Alexander Kolbasov
I think that the pipe test for libMicro can be enhanced a bit by - Adding support for PF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM sockets They are used by various applications and it is interesting to measure performance differencies from other loopback-type transports - Adding support for ptys as a loopback pipe me

Re: [perf-discuss] libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Alexander Kolbasov
Trying to do $ make run produced: make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `run' Current working directory /net/aldan/export/akolb/build/libMicro-0.3.0/bin-i86pc *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: mkdir -p bin-`uname -m`; cd bin-`uname -m`; MACH=`uname -m` make -f

Re: [perf-discuss] libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Eric Saxe
On 8/8/05, Ben Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought it would be interesting to get these > running on Mac OS X/ > PPC since there's no Darwin makefile included in the > release. Hey, this is really great. > So the tests compiled and ran, but as soon as I got > to the fork I got > resourc

[perf-discuss] Re: FileBench Discuss

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Pogue
Nice. I had some thoughts on this. I noticed that Filebench and libMicro were similar, but different. I think it would be a Good Idea to converge on a common output format. For example, I like the 'tattle' header from libMicro, which tells me absolutely everything I need to know (hopefull

[perf-discuss] Re: libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Pogue
Ben, Eric is looking into the limits question, so I hope to see an answer posted from him soon. In the mean time, thanks much for the diffs for Darwin! Can I get you to sign a contributor agreement (located here: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement/) and fax it in, so

[perf-discuss] FileBench Discuss

2005-08-09 Thread Richard J. McDougall
It's obviously the week of Open Source benchmarks :-) I've just added the FileBench page to the performance community, and links to the source and binary downloads. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench It's still early days for filebench; we are honing the workload list as

[perf-discuss] NUMA-aware ptools available for download

2005-08-09 Thread Alexander Kolbasov
The first prototype of NUMA-aware ptools (plgrp(1), pmadvise(1) and lgroup-aware pmap(1) extensions) is available for download at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/numa/observability This is work in progress. Please send your comments/suggestions, flames to http://www.openso

[perf-discuss] Re: UFS Direct I/O

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Sneed
Ryan: The goodness of UFS direct I/O is highly application-specific. The benefits arise from two fundamental reasons - one being avoidance of OS page cache scaling limitations, and the other being removal of the POSIX single-writer lock constraint - which allows multiple I/O operations to a fi

Re: [perf-discuss] UFS Direct I/O

2005-08-09 Thread Jarod Jenson
Matty's email at 8/8/2005 3:52 PM, said: Howdy, While reading through Solaris Internals this weekend, I came to the section on UFS direct I/O. The book states that random and large sequential workloads benefit from direct I/O. Does anyone happen to know how big a "large sequential" I/O needs t

[perf-discuss] Re: Re: libMicro page added

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
> In the case of longjmp.c siglongjmp.c, these diffs > will fix things: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sccs diffs longjmp.c siglongjmp.c > > --- longjmp.c --- > 29c29 > < int i = 0; > --- > > volatile inti = 0; > > --- siglongjmp.c --- > 38c38 > <