Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Rick C. Petty
buildworld kernel" regularly, so any reboots will automatically have a newer kernel). There's definite evidence that the newnfs mounts are slower than plain nfs, and sometimes orders of magnitude slower (as others have shown). But the old nfs

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-03 Thread Rick C. Petty
ng in the read stuff. I can try disabling SMP too. Should that really matter, if you're not even pegging one CPU? The locks shouldn't have *that* much overhead... -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-03 Thread Rick C. Petty
264 1080p video does not skip): mount -t nfs server:/path /mnt I guess I will have to wait for you to bring the v4 client up to date. Thanks again for all of your contributions and for porting NFSv4 to FreeBSD! -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-08-30 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:44:06AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Hi. I'm still having problems with NFSv4 being very laggy on one > > client. > > When the NFSv4 server is at 50% idle CPU and the disks are < 1% busy, > > I am > > getting horrible throughput on an idle client. Using dd(1) with 1 MB

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-08-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
4299 Any ideas? -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow? (root/toor)

2010-06-29 Thread Rick C. Petty
out NIS. If someone can prove that this will cause a problem with NFSv4, we could consider hackingit. Otherwise I don't think we should change this behavior yet. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
The v4 file system seems just as fast as v3 did, and I don't need a dozen mountpoints specified on each client thanks to v4. Once again, I thank you, Rick, for all your hard work! -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
; since I like to build as close to GENERIC as possible. Mostly the WITHOUT_* stuff in /etc/src.conf is to reduce my overall build times, since I don't need some of those tools. I'm okay with the messages though; I'll probably comment out WITHOUT_INET6. Thanks again for your s

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:09:21PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > If it makes any difference, the server's four CPUs are > >pegged at 100% (running "nice +4" cpu-bound jobs). But that was the case > >

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
on seeks was less than 0.1 seconds and the playback was never jittery. I can try it again with v3 client and v4 server, if you think that's worthy of pursuit. If it makes any difference, the server's four CPUs are pegged at 100% (running "nice +4" cpu-bound job

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
the kernel since I always "make buildworld kernel" and keep things in sync with mergemaster when I reboot. I'm building new worlds/kernels now to see if that makes any difference. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
t = 5, port = 28416 Jun 27 18:05:12 amanda kernel: NLM: failed to contact remote rpcbind, stat = 5, port = 28416 client, when noticing the mounting-over-directories problem: NLM: failed to contact remote rpcbind, stat = 5, port = 28416 nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10020 nf

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
s, and the ls(1) was executed during that lockup. I wish there was a way I could unhang these processes and unmount the NFS mount without panicking the kernel, but alas even this fails: # umount -f /sw load: 0.00 cmd: umount 17479 [nfsclumnt] 1.27r 0.00u 0.04s 0% 788k A "shutdown -p now" result

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
libtool-2.2.6b/libltdl/config/config.sub: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || * 7660 Again, my ports tree is mounted as FSType nfs with option nfsv4. FreeBSD/amd64 8.1-PRERELEASE r208408M GENERIC kernel. -- Rick C. Petty

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
quot;, they show up empty. In dmesg I see: kernel: nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10020 After unmounting /vol, I discovered that my client already had /vol/a/b and /vol/a/c directories (because pre-NFSv4, I had to mount each filesystem separately). Once I removed those empty dirs and remounted, the problem went away. But it did drive me crazy for a few hours. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
. On the server, I have these tunables explicitly set: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288 vfs.newnfs.issue_delegations=1 On the client, I just have the maxsockbuf setting (this is twice the default value). I'm open to trying other tunables or patches. TIA, -- Rick C. Petty

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Rick C. Petty
finish it. Isn't this sufficient? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes If not, could you make the changes on wikipedia? This isn't a FreeBSD-specific topic, and the larger community would benefit from such documentation. -- Rick C. Petty _

Re: ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-23 Thread Rick C. Petty
6, you'll need to reboot into single-user again with geom_vinum unloaded. 10). Wipe sector 8 of the vinum slick on disk1. 11). Add disk1 to the gmirror, which should start a sync. 12). Load the geom_vinum module again, if you have other volumes not part of this mirror. If this panics the

Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?

2009-07-07 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Rick C. Petty typed: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Dimitry Andric typed: > > >

Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?

2009-07-06 Thread Rick C. Petty
re where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc64 > systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel is > more comparable to i386, even with the 8-byte pointer size: Um, probably there are a lot of devices on amd64 that

Re: Use n instead of Fn for choosing the OS when booting?

2009-06-22 Thread Rick C. Petty
are only 5 choices, maximum. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails

2009-05-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
t;buildworld" before doing a "buildkernel", as the toolchain which builds the kernel might have changed. Also "KERNCONF=GENERIC" is implied. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: TCP differences in 7.2 vs 7.1

2009-05-12 Thread Rick C. Petty
different NIC. This option controls whether we offload segmenting to the NIC. My NIC seemed to be limited by the number of interrupts which could be delivered. You can also do this on a card-by-card basis using "ifconfig -tso". -- Rick C. Petty

Re: cd ripping to flac

2009-03-10 Thread Rick C. Petty
What does this have to do with FreeBSD-stable? This question is better asked on freebsd-questions. > Since cdda2wav is in the base, I suppose people > use it regurarly. Something like: What do you mean by "base"? It is a port and

Re: newfs(8) parameters from "dumpfs -m" have bad -s value?

2009-01-05 Thread Rick C. Petty
akes no difference since the number of bytes is computed by newfs and then divided by the actual sector size when calling bwrite(3). I still would prefer: > > Better yet would be to add a parameter ("-z" perhaps) to newfs(8) to accep

Re: cvsup freebsd 6_2 to freebsd 7_1 not upgrading?

2009-01-05 Thread Rick C. Petty
your line to: make -j4 buildworld buildkernel && make installkernel or just: make -j4 buildworld kernel && echo "success" -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: newfs(8) parameters from "dumpfs -m" have bad -s value?

2009-01-05 Thread Rick C. Petty
add a parameter ("-z" perhaps) to newfs(8) to accept number of bytes instead of multiples of sectorsize. I would be willing to write up patches for dumpfs and newfs to both add the raw byte size and the 512-byte sector size handling to correct said mistake, unless someone else would

Re: make world broken for RELENG_6

2007-03-31 Thread Rick C. Petty
rare that -stable breaks on buildworld (even -current isn't broken often, in terms of build breakage).. something I can't say about other operating systems. A csup this morning caused the problem to go away. Thanks, guys! -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

make world broken for RELENG_6

2007-03-31 Thread Rick C. Petty
eaking things now? Please Cc: me, thanks, -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"