Re: [perf-discuss] Kstat stability tags (trying again)

2009-09-16 Thread David Collier-Brown
f my realm of experience. I suspect a few emails to opensolaris-arc > or such might prove useful, though I'm not sure if now is the > appropriate time or not. I'll talk offline to a couple of people and > see what they recommend. I speculate it would be a fast-tracked ARC ca

[perf-discuss] Sidebar to the ZFS free memory discussion

2009-07-02 Thread David Collier-Brown
Richard Elling > ...but by definition, virtualization makes capacity planning opaque :-) > Everything (or more things) is shared and resource control at the OS > layer may not be effective. I know that's tongue-in-cheek, but it's a bit too pessimistic. I'm a capacity planner, and CP is done stri

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

2009-06-29 Thread David Collier-Brown
ead. If (free - arcstats:c_min) fits this bill, then it's cool! --dave [ Hey, is that Sean from was used to be SSHA?] -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest dav...@sun.com |

Re: [perf-discuss] Can we get the free memory number right again? (w/ ZFS)

2009-06-26 Thread David Collier-Brown
Ah, that's much better, thanks! --dave johan...@sun.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:55:14PM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote: >> johan...@sun.com replied >>> I disagree with the premise that the free memory calculation isn't >>> useful because it d

Re: [perf-discuss] how to measure zfs performance

2009-06-25 Thread David Collier-Brown
ort of simulated load you can use to get an idea. --dave -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest dav...@sun.com | -- Mark Twain cell: (647) 833-9377,

Re: [perf-discuss] Can we get the free memory number right again? (w/ ZFS)

2009-06-25 Thread David Collier-Brown
confusing. I worry that we're making a silent change to "all memory is considered used" again. If we are, we will have to kludge up a metric, like scan rate that spiked when we run out of memory. I used to be on the ABI (stability) team and my boss would happily fricassee me if I p

Re: [perf-discuss] kstat stability tags

2009-04-08 Thread David Collier-Brown
as > not explicitly set, *stability contains KSTAT_STABILITY_PRIVATE. >ENOENT - kstat does not exist. > > User interfaces: > > int kstat_get_stability(kstat_ctl_t *kc, const char *ks_module, const > char *ks_name, kstat_stability_t *stability) > Similar to kernel int

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
Software Maintenance" (which I typed in (;-)) --dave Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:07:29PM -0600, Jason King wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: >>> I'll see you on the list (;-)) >>>

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
ce names, drop old ones and never ever change the meaning of a datum without creating a new interface name for it. Not a small task! --dave Jason King wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: >> Brendan Gregg wrote: >>> No. Stop. Do not assume an

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
capacity planner in Toronto) c-b -- David Collier-Brown| Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest dav...@sun.com | -- Mark Twain cell: (647) 833-

Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-21 Thread David Collier-Brown
e it predicts the drop-off after "100%" The more we get visit counts, residence and wait times out of Solaris, the better! I'm particularly impressed with the recent tools to convert lock spins int lock time, even though locks aren't something you can use queue math on. --dave -

Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-19 Thread David Collier-Brown
Useless as a Metric! Adrian Cockcroft ? eBay > Research Labs > [2] - (SE Toolkit could have been easily used here, however not all sites > allow installing extra software adding new kernel drivers) > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] Idle time numbers for a T1 strand

2008-10-02 Thread David Collier-Brown
Correction in-line... David Collier-Brown wrote: > Elad Lahav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asjed > | I'm looking into the performance of a simple, single-threaded, TCP > server on a T1000. > | According to mpstat, the strand running the server is about 50% idle. > However

[perf-discuss] Idle time numbers for a T1 strand

2008-10-02 Thread David Collier-Brown
stick. Then report R versus TPS as a graph, This is traditionally called the hockey-stick curve. That will tell you when to add more instances of the program or buy more machines (;-)) Feel free to email me directly. -- dave (who went to UW as an undergrad) c-b -- David Collier-Brown