Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread johansen
David Collier-Brown wrote: > Actually Sean's asking for a clue about the *virtual* memory behavior. The pagelist and the cachelist contain page objects, which have an associated physical page. He's actually talking about physical memory, since you'll never have more pages on any of these lists th

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread Richard Elling
Sean Liu wrote: David & Richard, Thanks for continuing on the discussion under a new topic. I suppose the discussion board software had a little too much to drink last night ;-) First of all - David I am not the Sean from SSHA, but I am in Toronto. I'll send you a note shortly to have a discu

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread Sean Liu
David & Richard, Thanks for continuing on the discussion under a new topic. I suppose the discussion board software had a little too much to drink last night ;-) First of all - David I am not the Sean from SSHA, but I am in Toronto. I'll send you a note shortly to have a discussion some time :-

Re: [perf-discuss] iGen Benchmark Suite

2009-06-30 Thread Adam Zhang
Hi Henrik & Ben, Recently I am using this tool for an internal project. So I did a little research. According to our wiki, this tool is used for Sun and Sun customer with NDA. Regards, Adam Henrik Johansson 写道: On 30 jun 2009, at 08.03, Ben Rockwood wrote: Is iGen available? I see it ref

Re: [perf-discuss] NFS server and iSCSI target with very low performance

2009-06-30 Thread Sean Liu
Well disabling zil may bring you better performance but at the price of data integrity. Check this blog entry (which was referred to in the link I gave you before) for details: http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/nfs_and_zfs_a_fine A seperate SSD zil device may be a more expensive but proper option.

Re: [perf-discuss] poor application performance - very high cross-calls

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Sistare
Yes, temporarily moving to UFS would eliminate the xcalls. - Steve On 06/29/09 23:51, Matthew Flanagan wrote: [...] It appears that fwd is mmapping the files. So as a temporary measure would moving > the logs to UFS improve things? I'll be applying latest recommended patches but another po

Re: [perf-discuss] NFS server and iSCSI target with very low performance

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas
Thanks for the info. In the meantime I got the tip from the mailing list to try zil_disable. This brings good performance. Next we will try to reinstall OpenSolaris with raid-z2 instead of Hardware Raid 6. Hopefully this solves the issue. Otherwise a separate ZIL device sounds like a good optio

Re: [perf-discuss] iGen Benchmark Suite

2009-06-30 Thread Henrik Johansson
On 30 jun 2009, at 08.03, Ben Rockwood wrote: Is iGen available? I see it referenced especially in the Mr.Benchmark blog but can't find any place to get it. Anyone have the scoop? I have also tried to find it without success, I sent a mail to this list yesterday but me and my mail clien