Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Parvu
> 9 zones, currently 15 jvms. enough big number of jvms. Is your server based on 8 cores with 16 or 32GB ? I would say you should have a big enough swap as well for all these JVMs and the needed reservations. We were in a T2000, 8 cores, 32GB RAM with 4 zones, 20-25 jvms. It is somehow diffic

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Parvu
>> As an experiment you could try running one or more of >> your Perl scripts with >>ppgsz -o heap=8K /path/to/script >> ormance problem disappears. If this performs >> better, then your problem is very likely what I've > This fixes it! > > No more high smtx values (even w

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Dirk" == Dirk Vleugels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dirk> Hi, >> As an experiment you could try running one or more of >> your Perl scripts with >> ppgsz -o heap=8K /path/to/script >> ormance problem disappears. If this performs >> better, then your problem is very likely what I've >> described.

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Rayson Ho
On 10/5/07, Dirk Vleugels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could i run more processes with this default heap page size? Is this > recommended or a bad idea (i guess they will brk what they need anyways). > Something to put into /etc/system? See: "Supporting Multiple Page Sizes in the Solaris™ Operat

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Dirk Vleugels
Hi, > As an experiment you could try running one or more of > your Perl scripts with >ppgsz -o heap=8K /path/to/script > ormance problem disappears. If this performs > better, then your problem is very likely what I've > described. If the > performance problems persist in thi

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Parvu
>- how many processes are you running on this box vs number of CPU ? Read this: vs. number of cores :=) We had a kind of similar problem at our office where we simple had too many java app server instances running on one T2000 box. Hard things comes to size properly a T2000, how one should do tha

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Dirk" == Dirk Vleugels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dirk> our t2k box running Generic_118833-36 experiences massive Dirk> slowdown (upto 99% kernel cpu load) when launching several perl Dirk> scripts. This might be related to memory starvation, but its Dirk> hard to analyze (for me): Dirk> top re

Re: [perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, when you run your Perl scripts what 'vmstat 1' shows ? As well what exactly are those perl scripts, are you monitoring your site using them or ? Couple of other questions: - are you using ZFS ? - what disks are you using on T2000 ? - the problem occurs only when you start your monitoring P

[perf-discuss] t2000 slowdown

2007-10-05 Thread Dirk Vleugels
Hi, our t2k box running Generic_118833-36 experiences massive slowdown (upto 99% kernel cpu load) when launching several perl scripts. This might be related to memory starvation, but its hard to analyze (for me): top reports 16G main memory, 800m free There are several zones running, containin