Re: how to control tagged queueing?

2002-11-12 Thread Dan Ellard
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chris Dillon wrote:

> > I'm experimenting with the effects of SCSI tagged queueing on file
> > system performance.  Is there any kind of global toggle somewhere in
> > the kernel to turn tagged queueing on and off, and/or knob to limit
> > the number of outstanding tags?  Tagged queue management all seems
> > to be done at the device level, and I haven't found hooks for
> > controlling it at a higher level (but I thought I'd ask before
> > running off to write something).
> >
> > I'm running 4.6.2p4, in case things have changed.  (If there's a
> > nicer interface in 4.7, I'll install it immediately!)
>
> man camcontrol
>
> Specifically:
>
> camcontrol tags [device id] [generic args] [-N tags] [-q] [-v]
> camcontrol negotiate [device id] [generic args] [-T enable|disable]

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.

And thanks to the other people who have responded!

-Dan



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how to control tagged queueing?

2002-11-12 Thread Dan Ellard

I'm experimenting with the effects of SCSI tagged queueing on file
system performance.  Is there any kind of global toggle somewhere in
the kernel to turn tagged queueing on and off, and/or knob to limit
the number of outstanding tags?  Tagged queue management all seems to
be done at the device level, and I haven't found hooks for controlling
it at a higher level (but I thought I'd ask before running off to
write something).

I'm running 4.6.2p4, in case things have changed.  (If there's a nicer
interface in 4.7, I'll install it immediately!)

Thanks,
-Dan



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Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Dan Ellard

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

Terry Lambert wrote:
> Dan Ellard wrote:
> > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days?  (I've had good
> > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no
> > longer being sold.)
>
> The Tigon II has the best performances, but that's because
> software people rewrote the firmware, instead of hardware
> engineers moonlighting as programmers.  8-) 8-).

Is anyone still making cards with the Tigon II chipset?
I'm not finding them for sale anywhere...

Thanks,
-Dan



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Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-06 Thread Dan Ellard

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> i have had good results with the single-port Intel "em" cards
> They are reasonably priced too, at least the copper version.

Thanks for the note.  (and thanks for reminding me that
I meant to ask about copper!  I hope to never deal with
fiber again...)

-Dan



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gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-06 Thread Dan Ellard


What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days?  (I've had good
experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no
longer being sold.)

I'm looking for:

- Easy FreeBSD integration.
- Reliability.
- High performance.

Thanks,
-Dan



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again: FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-23 Thread Dan Ellard


There have been some useful responses to my original question, but I
guess I didn't make it clear enough what the question was, because I
got a lot of responses comparing the NFS servers on systems other than
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.  I'm only interested in comparing the
performance of these three systems (at least for the short run).

If you've got a comparison of these three systems, or if someone has
these systems running in-house and would be willing to benchmark them,
I'd love to see the results!

Thanks,
-Dan



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FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-20 Thread Dan Ellard


Has anyone done a side-by-side benchmark of the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
NetBSD NFS servers on the same hardware?  Note that I'm interested in
server performance, not client performance.

I'm particularly interested in read performance, but anything would be
interesting.

In lieu of actual data, which system do people think makes the best
NFS server for heavily-loaded systems?

Thanks,
-Dan



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Thanks! (Re: multi-disk file systems on FreeBSD?)

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Ellard


Thanks to everyone who responded to my query.
It looks like vinum and/or ccd will do exactly
what I want and they look very straightforward
to configure.

I probably could have discovered this myself
(as several people pointed out), but I was
blinded by my assumption that RAID implied
redundancy-- so I didn't look at the RAID
stuff at all.  Now I know better.

Thanks,
-Dan



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multi-disk file systems on FreeBSD?

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Ellard


Are there a way under FreeBSD to build a file
system using more than one special file?

For example, I have a machine with three 9G
SCSI disks, and I'd like to build a 27G file
system by combining them.

Thanks,
-Dan



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