Re: [perf-discuss] Application runs almost 2x slower on Nevada than Linux

2008-05-01 Thread Matty
FPU], dynamically > linked, not stripped, no debugging information available > $ ./xml > 10 iter in 22.749836 sec > > versus: > > $ gcc -m64 -O3 -o xml `/usr/bin/xml2-config --libs --cflags` xml.c > $ file xml > xml:ELF 64-bit LSB executable AMD64 Vers

Re: [perf-discuss] Application runs almost 2x slower on Nevada than Linux

2008-04-30 Thread Matty
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM, David Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your application is single threaded, you could try using the > bsdmalloc library. This is a fast malloc, but it is not multi-thread > safe and will also tend to use more memory than the default > malloc. For a compari

Re: [perf-discuss] Application runs almost 2x slower on Nevada than Linux

2008-04-30 Thread Matty
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Dude, > I pulled down a copy of your test program and ran a few experiments. > > $ time ./xml > 10 iter in 22.715982 sec > > real0m22.721s > user0m22.694s > sys 0m0.007s > > This seems to indicate that all of

[perf-discuss] Application runs almost 2x slower on Nevada than Linux

2008-04-28 Thread Matty
Howdy, I have been working with one of our developers to port a Linux application to opensolaris. While benchmarking the app, we noticed that it ran 2x slower on a Nevada build 85 host than it did on Linux. The application utilizes libxml to transform XML documents, and I think we have narrowed do

Re: [perf-discuss] Performance tool on java app question

2008-02-03 Thread Matty
On Jan 30, 2008 5:36 PM, Z W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an open source performance tool out there that gives a complete > "picture" on all the methods called > in a java application run ? In other words, I like to know if there's a tool > out there that could help me > determine if a me

Re: [perf-discuss] mpstat output showing high cpu usage

2008-01-19 Thread Matty
On Jan 18, 2008 7:46 AM, Rafael Pires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've been requested to investigate a performance issue with a sybase instance > bound to a processor set of 3 processors (server contains 16 in total). > After some investigation, I could not find any bottleneck with prstat,

Re: [perf-discuss] Disk Io performence MPXIO

2007-09-13 Thread Matty
On 9/13/07, Flemming Danielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I havw a customer that had problems with one fabric of his san, but I could > only see that some IOs was slov, and not map this to one of the fabrics as I > was unable to see the performence data of the lune presented by the arrays

Re: [perf-discuss] Heavy IO from sched

2007-09-13 Thread Matty
On 9/13/07, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using DTrace more and more to investigate storage performance > issues and keep bumping into something I can't properly explain. The > following snipped comes from Brenden's 'iotop': > > ... > 102 13171 11536 pickup sd6

Re: [perf-discuss] cpu performance counters obtained by vmstat and prstat look conflict

2007-06-18 Thread Matty
On 6/18/07, 陶捷 Euler Tao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok, i see. Then, how can I correct this problem when using prstat? Or is there any other statistics tool that could catch these short lived processes correctly? If your using Solaris 10 or Nevada, you can use shortlive.d from the DTraceToolki

Re: [perf-discuss] Rule of Thumb Guidelines for Oracle Server Sizing

2007-04-28 Thread Matty
On 4/28/07, Steven Sim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am seeking Rule of Thumbs for an Oracle Database Server sizing on Sun Servers. I understand the above would be guidelines only and not hardened rules. Hi Steven, I found Allan Packer's book "Configuring & Tuning Databases on the SOLARIS Plat

Re: [perf-discuss] NFS Performance and Tar

2006-09-30 Thread Matty
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Ben Rockwood wrote: Hey Guys, I'm trying to tune my NFS enviroment and have yet to make any improvement, I was hoping someone could offer some experience in this situation. Here's the problem: I've got a bunch of X4100 clients (NV_B43) and a Thumper (NV_B43) NFS serv

Re: [perf-discuss] PowerNow! and monitoring tools

2006-05-24 Thread Matty
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Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Performance Benchmark List

2006-03-10 Thread Matty
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Re: [perf-discuss] Getting PCI Bus throughput with busstat

2005-11-03 Thread Matty
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Richard McDougall wrote: Hi Matty, We use some scripts to post-process busstat into what you are looking for: bandwidth per sbus and device. It's a two phase operation now, collect and report. See below for the report and collect scripts... Hi Richard, I reviewe

[perf-discuss] Getting PCI Bus throughput with busstat

2005-11-02 Thread Matty
w_transitions E*_slow_cycles_per_64 Are the events documented anywhere by any chance? Is there anything equivalent to "dvma_bytes_xfr" to get the number of bytes transmitted on a PCI bus? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty ___

[perf-discuss] Kernel Asynchronous I/O

2005-08-23 Thread Matty
Howdy, Does anyone know why kernel asynchronous I/O is limited to raw devices? Is it possible to extend kaio to the file system layer? Would there be any benefit? Is there a noticeable performance difference between the userland and kernel asynchronous I/O implemenation when UFS is used with l

[perf-discuss] Kernel Asynchronous I/O

2005-08-10 Thread Matty
Howdy, Does anyone know why kernel asynchronous I/O is limited to raw devices? Is it possible to extend kaio to the file system layer? Would there be any benefit? Is there a noticeable performance difference between the userland and kernel asynchronous I/O implementation when UFS is used with la

[perf-discuss] UFS Direct I/O

2005-08-08 Thread Matty
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 to be to benefit from direct I/O? Are there a