Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-12-02 Thread Jan Lambertz
I m not sure if you already investigated this but s.m.a.r.t. has quite many diagnostic info. Even if the drive has not actually been marked as broken. This is somewhat vendor dependent. I did not check these info with openbsd but it should be possible. Facts from my hard drives include: Bad

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-12-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:39:17PM +0100, Jan Lambertz wrote: I m not sure if you already investigated this but s.m.a.r.t. has quite many diagnostic info. Even if the drive has not actually been marked as broken. This is somewhat vendor dependent. I did not check these info with openbsd but it

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-12-02 Thread David Vasek
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:39:17PM +0100, Jan Lambertz wrote: I m not sure if you already investigated this but s.m.a.r.t. has quite many diagnostic info. Even if the drive has not actually been marked as broken. This is somewhat vendor dependent. I

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-12-01 Thread John Hynes
OK, just to clarify: The kernel is 5.3 with the official patches applied, no other modifications. I read through the changes for 5.4 and certainly, there has been a ton of work done, and I will upgrade soon. Nothing listed in the changes seems like it would directly address a problem like this,

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/01/13 06:20, John Hynes wrote: OK, just to clarify: The kernel is 5.3 with the official patches applied, no other modifications. I read through the changes for 5.4 and certainly, there has been a ton of work done, and I will upgrade soon. Nothing listed in the changes seems like it

Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread John Hynes
I'm having some trouble figuring out what is causing a systemic performance issue. By systemic I mean that running even seemingly trivial things (i.e. 'ls' on a directory with only a few files in it) is accompanied by a substantial delay before any response, say, of 15-30 seconds. Not *every*

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, John Hynes wrote: I'm having some trouble figuring out what is causing a systemic performance issue. By systemic I mean that running even seemingly trivial things (i.e. 'ls' on a directory with only a few files in it) is accompanied by a substantial delay before any

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:02:58PM -0500, John Hynes wrote: I'm having some trouble figuring out what is causing a systemic performance issue. By systemic I mean that running even seemingly trivial things (i.e. 'ls' on a directory with only a few files in it) is accompanied by a substantial

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:02:58PM -0500, John Hynes wrote: OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Sep 13 04:11:52 EDT 2013 j...@hytronix-gw1.hytronix.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/ GENERIC.MP Try 5.4 or -current.

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread STeve Andre'
On 11/30/13 20:04, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:02:58PM -0500, John Hynes wrote: OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Sep 13 04:11:52 EDT 2013 j...@hytronix-gw1.hytronix.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:04:44PM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:02:58PM -0500, John Hynes wrote: OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Sep 13 04:11:52 EDT 2013