Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-10-06 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: Greg, have you run into any other evidence suggesting a problem with 2.6.32? I haven't actually checked myself yet. Right now the only distribution shipping 2.6.32 usefully is Ubuntu 10.04, which I can't recommend anyone use on a server because their release schedules a

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 28/09/10 16:59, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Greg, have you run into any other evidence suggesting a problem with 2.6.32? Not Greg (sorry), but this might be worth a look: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg20299.html Oh, int

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Greg, have you run into any other evidence suggesting a problem with 2.6.32? > > Not Greg (sorry), but this might be worth a look: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg20299.html Oh, interesting. But why wouldn't that also affect

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 28/09/10 04:28, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Domas Mituzas wrote: I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which does not affect MySQL), compa

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Domas Mituzas wrote: >> >> I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that >> 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which >> does not affect MySQL), compared to 2.6.28 builds I have. >> What I

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-14 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > Can you run oprofile on the older kernel, so that we can compare and see > where the time is spent? > Looks like over 7% of the time is spent in s_lock, which suggests some change > in behavior in context switching or something like that, but let's see what > the old profile looks like

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 09/13/2010 06:43 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Thom Brown wrote: I thought sysbench was designed for MySQL benchmarks. How new is the PostgreSQL driver? Is it stable yet? It's been out there for years; the FreeBSD 7.0 development used it extensively on MySQL and PostgreSQL to track kernel performan

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Greg Smith
Thom Brown wrote: I thought sysbench was designed for MySQL benchmarks. How new is the PostgreSQL driver? Is it stable yet? It's been out there for years; the FreeBSD 7.0 development used it extensively on MySQL and PostgreSQL to track kernel performance on both databases back in 2007:

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Thom Brown
On 13 September 2010 17:27, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 09/13/2010 06:05 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >> >> Domas Mituzas wrote: >>> >>> I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that >>> 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG >>> (which does not af

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 09/13/2010 06:05 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Domas Mituzas wrote: I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which does not affect MySQL), compared to 2.6.28 builds I have. What I observed can be seen in

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Greg Smith
Domas Mituzas wrote: I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which does not affect MySQL), compared to 2.6.28 builds I have. What I observed can be seen in a paste at http://p.defau.lt/?8_GQV82Pz3_

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 12/09/10 23:31, Domas Mituzas wrote: I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which does not affect MySQL), compared to 2.6.28 builds I have. What I observed can be seen in a paste at http://p.d

[HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-12 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello folks, I've been playing around today a lot with sysbench, and observed that 2.6.32 kernel supplied by Ubuntu is having perf regression with PG (which does not affect MySQL), compared to 2.6.28 builds I have. What I observed can be seen in a paste at http://p.defau.lt/?8_GQV82Pz3_SDZbNOdP