Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.09.2013 15:02, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > You should give details of the tests. It looks like a hard disk write > speed bottleneck. I will get access again on monday. That's a hardware RAID-10 on 6 SAS disks ... that should be fast enough ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.09.2013 15:18, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > Try avoiding to write on disks. Use devices /dev/null and /dev/zero with > both protocol and command lines not optimizing zeros for network tests. > > You could also use dedicated network performance tools if you have > install rights. Will do nex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.10.2013 14:32, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > The 01/10/13, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> I used split and tar to split the image-file into 100 MB parts and rsync >> them over right now. >> >> Maybe I have something wrong in my kernel ... the server shows a load of >> around 3 ... while only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.10.2013 16:00, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) > > This is a 4-port NIC ... maybe I need some specific drivers and not only > the tg3-kernel-module? for the records and if someone wants to join in: recompiled the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Would someone please take a look at this dmesg: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24516209/dmesg.txt and tell me what those ugly messages around the CPUs could mean? I still see suboptimal performance on this hardware ... Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > I would think about a kernel bug first and try with a much lower > version. Yep. A bit scary with a server which is hundreds of kilometers away. Got to get that HP IlO-thingy going in my browser(s) ... S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > >> I would think about a kernel bug first and try with a much lower >> version. > Yep. A bit scary with a server which is hundreds of kilometers away. > > Got to get that HP IlO-thingy going in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2013 21:57, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > go with that dmesg, lspci, kernel config etc pp to lkml. Seriously. phew ... that sounds like making a fool of myself ... ;-) But maybe you are right, thanks. Considering to test 3.8.13 ... got the IlO to display the console in a browser ... a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2013 22:05, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.10.2013 21:57, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >> go with that dmesg, lspci, kernel config etc pp to lkml. Seriously. > > phew ... that sounds like making a fool of myself ... ;-) > But maybe you are right, thanks. > > Considering to tes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2013 22:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > While I disabled most of that HPET-stuff (took from my own server here): > > # zgrep -i hpet /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y > CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y > # CONFIG_HPET is not set > > > This is quite frustrating already ... but I repeat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.10.2013 00:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.10.2013 22:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> While I disabled most of that HPET-stuff (took from my own server here): >> >> # zgrep -i hpet /proc/config.gz >> CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y >> CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y >> # CONFIG_HPET is not se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:18:06AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > This is 3.8.13 now ... with some changed options, sure. > > For now I am happy ... can't believe it yet ;-) Why do you use a kernel that has been abandoned? https://www.kernel.org/ You should use a longterm kernel, prefe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.10.2013 14:20, schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:18:06AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> This is 3.8.13 now ... with some changed options, sure. >> >> For now I am happy ... can't believe it yet ;-) > > Why do you use a kernel that has been abandoned? > > https://www

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.10.2013 16:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I don't plan to stay with 3.8.13, this is just an intermediate step to > get a working config. For now I don't have any more lost hpet interrupts > etc and the LAN speed is fine. Emerging packages as well ... > > From this config I will then try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.10.2013 08:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 10.10.2013 16:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> I don't plan to stay with 3.8.13, this is just an intermediate step to >> get a working config. For now I don't have any more lost hpet interrupts >> etc and the LAN speed is fine. Emerging pa