On Sep 6, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Roel_D <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading this it reminds me of the old days where IRQ's were important to > systems. > Those days my serial mouse could interfere with my modem. > > But I thought those days were way back..
Interrupt conflicts are syslogged at boot (and other times that the device tree is shaken). Check /var/adm/messages for clues. -- richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: donderdag 6 september 2012 16:56 > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VERY slow server performance > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Stuart & Shirley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi - Look for some assistance in improving disk access performance on >> my OpenIndiana install. >> >> Wanting to upgrade my server based on OpenSolaris and ZFS to 3TB >> drives, I upgraded the OS to OpenIndiana 151a. >> >> Performance is terrible over the network as compared to the previous >> OpenSolaris installation. Hardware is identical with the exception of >> a second SATA controller (a second identical Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8) >> and additional hard drives. >> >> Perhaps related, the USB mouse is virtually none-operational. It will >> only update the location of the mouse for about 0.5s out of every 10s. >> This has not been an issue, as I usually connect remotely. But still >> an indication that all is not well. >> >> Transfers on the machine, from drive to drive appears about the same >> as when running under OpenIndiana - but across the networks it's very > slow. >> >> Moving a large file from my windows 7 machine across the GbE lan - >> transfers at ~11.5MB/s as reported by windows copy. >> >> Using zpool iostat, the write bandwidth is reported as high as 20M. >> >> Now if I run zpool iostat continuously (display every 3 seconds), copy >> performance increases - moving into the 16 to 17 MB/s range as >> reported by windows. >> >> Copying from one storage pool to another, zpool iostat will report >> write bandwidths of 26M. >> >> >> My pool configuration is detailed below. >> >> Other's slow performance had been pegged to flow control enabled on >> the Ethernet port - this was disabled. It did make a difference, but >> not that dramatic. >> >> Any suggestions on how to improve performance and how to fix the mouse >> would be greatly appreciated! >> >> Flow control properties: >> >> LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE >> e1000g0 flowctrl rw no bi > no,tx,rx,bi >> >> Zpool configurations: >> pool: rpool >> >> state: ONLINE >> >> scan: resilvered 4.63G in 0h7m with 0 errors on Wed Jun 6 22:12:16 >> 2012 >> >> config: >> >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 >> mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> errors: No known data errors >> >> pool: tank_12T >> >> state: ONLINE >> scan: none requested >> config: >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> tank_12T ONLINE 0 0 0 >> raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> errors: No known data errors >> >> pool: tank_m >> >> state: ONLINE >> >> scan: none requested >> config: >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> tank_m ONLINE 0 0 0 >> mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c7t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c7t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> errors: No known data errors > > The mouse interrupt issue is, in my experience, is not a new one. > > I've been seeing this on solaris laptops for as long as I can remember. > The interesting issue for you is this only happened with the addition of > another sata controller. This leads me to believe that there's some rather > confused logic in the interrupt handler, such that the mouse interrupts > basically gets preempted by the interrupts between the sata controller as > data is passed from one controller to the other. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- illumos Day & ZFS Day, Oct 1-2, 2012 San Fransisco www.zfsday.com [email protected] +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
