Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-28 Thread D. Rock
Dan Nelson schrieb: In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: Kenneth Culver wrote: Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in: options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #

RE: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-28 Thread Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
> From: Atte Peltomaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > If it's long enough to pause the console noticibly, the > next thing > > > to try is breaking to the debugger -- which might require an NMI > > > card -- to see what code it's stuck in during the pause. > > > > It's noticeable - if you

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-27 Thread Atte Peltomaki
> > If it's long enough to pause the console noticibly, the next > > thing to try is breaking to the debugger -- which might require > > an NMI card -- to see what code it's stuck in during the pause. > > It's noticeable - if you type under heavy load in console, you > experience similar to ssh la

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling > >

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling > > > software and copying files over NFS while listen

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Atte Peltomaki wrote: > > Description: > > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while c

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Atte Peltomaki
> > > If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters > > > as "entropy" sources, does the problem fix itself? > > > > If you're thinking it's /dev/random blocking on him, 5.0's output never > > blocks. Its output is a PRNG periodically seeded from random data, > > including in

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
Just a "me too". I have a procmail filter that uses spamassissin to filter all my incomming mail (downloaded with fetchmail). I have noticed that if I get a lot of messages at once, interactive response degrades tremendously with a lot of perl processes stuck in either swread or pfault state. The

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: > > If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters > > as "entropy" sources, does the problem fix itself? > > If you're thinking it's /dev/random blocking on him, 5.0's output never > blocks. Its output is a PRNG periodically seeded from random data, > includ

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Terry Lambert said: > Atte Peltomaki wrote: > > Description: > > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Atte Peltomaki wrote: > Description: > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling > software and copying files over NFS while l

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread John David Duncan
> H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. Setting > malloc.conf to "aj" makes it work like it does in 4.*. Here are some benchmarks to illustrate that, using ubench (from /usr/ports/benchmarks) on a du

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:46PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. > > Yes. > > > R is on > > by de

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. > > Yes. > > > R is on > > by default in 5.0

malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Dan Nelson wrote: > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. > R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. That's not what the malloc(3

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave > > things like this in: > > > > options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity > > options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Ext

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not > > whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it > > would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. > > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not > whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it > would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in: opti

Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Atte Peltomaki
I've used 5.0-RELEASE for few days now, and I've been experiencing some serious performance problems. I haven't had the time to examine it more closely, and frankly, I have no clue where to start looking for. Perhaps someone knows what this is all about. Description: Every time machine is under h