Re: [perf-discuss] Re: CPU saturation vs utilization

2006-10-30 Thread Bob Sneed, SMI PAE
adrian cockcroft wrote: Could also be fsflush related, fsflush can indirectly interfere with streams/network traffic. Bob Sneed told me that the latest patches include a fix for this problem, or you can increase autoup to reduce it. Adrian: Indeed, the Change Request titled "Interim performance

[perf-discuss] Re: ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
For the case of mkfile it doesn't really matter, but AFAIK zfs provides more guarantees than ufs does. Ufs without logging guarantees very little (esp. if more or less synchronous metadata updates are turned off e.g. with fastfs). Ufs with logging more or less guarantees filesystem consistency (an

[perf-discuss] Re: CPU saturation vs utilization

2006-10-30 Thread Sudarsan
Thank you for your responses. This system is a backup system's extremely busy media server and is a controlled one, without any quick lived processes. In any case, I went through previous (automated) ps traces and confirmed the absence of short lived processes (whatever information I have) Adr

[perf-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-30 Thread Jay Grogan
Ran 3 test using mkfile to create a 6GB on a ufs and ZFS file system. command ran mkfile -v 6gb /ufs/tmpfile Test 1 UFS mounted LUN (2m2.373s) Test 2 UFS mounted LUN with directio option (5m31.802s) Test 3 ZFS LUN (Single LUN in a pool) (3m13.126s) Sunfire V120 1 Qlogic 2340 Solaris 10 06/06

Re: [perf-discuss] Process groups and process distribution across boards...

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Saxe
Hi Roland, Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Is there any special handling of process groups to make sure that processes (and their LWPs) are kept together ? Think about an (imaginary (and simplified)) machine with 4 strands per core, 4 cores per socket, 4 sockets per board and 4 boards per cabine

[perf-discuss] LibMicro on SUN T2000

2006-10-30 Thread JPL
I ran LibMicro tools on a T2000 and I'm wondering if I should use T2000 specificl compilation option or not . I intend to use the tools to compare T2000 versus V890 JP This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-di