Re: [perf-discuss] Bundled utils for benchmark recording

2008-01-01 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
May be a little late but i'll start with mpstat and vmstat. However, its really a shot in the dark without knowing what your customers are after. On 12/11/07, Henrik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IHAC thats is going to run some stress tests on a pair of Mx000-machines > and they say the

Re: [perf-discuss] mmap problem

2007-09-21 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 9/21/07, love_code meta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I 'm testing mmap function, and my pagesize is 4k bytes. After mapping > 8k virtual memory, by dtrace I find there is only one pagefault when I > access memory like that s[0] , s[4096]. > > The following is my test spteps. > 1. fd = open(

Re: [perf-discuss] prefetch data for page fault

2007-09-20 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 9/18/07, love_code meta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After mapping virtual memory, then access data in memory, we know that > will generate page fault trap if no physical memory page available. > Is it beneficial that before resuming user program we pre-fetch the addr > which caused page fault?

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-22 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 8/22/07, Peter C. Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The swap to zpool idea is very interesting. But this brings up another > question in the puzzle for us... What is this mythical creature, a > page size, in the Solaris VM, when it comes to tuning? You have Here's Richard McDougall's excellen

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

2007-06-19 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 6/18/07, Jean-Francois Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Typically, changing the prstat refresh time doesn't change anything because the %cpu it is displaying remains the decaying average over the last minute. Jean, You are certainly correct about pcpu. I was hoping that reducing refresh

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

2007-06-18 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 6/18/07, 陶捷 Euler Tao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok, i see. Then, how can I correct this problem when using prstat? I'd try microstate accounting to see but I'm not sure if it will help. You could also try to reduce the reporting interval. Or is there any other statistics tool that could c

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

2007-06-18 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 6/18/07, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: prstat may miss Stupid safari3 is chopping off my post. prstat may miss short lived processes and this seems possible because you are compiling stuff. -- Just me, Wire ... Blog: ___ perf-d

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

2007-06-18 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 6/18/07, 陶捷 Euler Tao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all: I'm compiling the ON build 65's source code now, using "nightly opensolaris.sh" command. The prstat reports that system is very idle, but the load average tells me that the system is very busy. -,- And then I check the vmstat report,

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Terrible performance [x86]

2007-05-13 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 5/13/07, David Valin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is always amazing how much data you can get out of the system isn't it :). Anyway we are chewing up a lot of space in the anon part of vm. Willing to try an experiment? Reboot your system and run memstat before you start anything. Then

Re: [perf-discuss] Terrible performance [x86]

2007-05-13 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 5/13/07, Eddy Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday I installed OpenSolaris for the first time, so excuse me that I'm not 100% familiar with it. I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for a while now (perhaps 2 years). After getting my network connection to work, I noticed

Re: [perf-discuss] how to interpret the prstat output?

2006-10-05 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 10/5/06, anuradha moturi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does prstat output for a child process reflect its own resource utilization or are those stats the same as that of the parent process. I have observed that the size and rss stats for both parent and child were same, I wanted to clarify whethe