Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:47 AM 20/04/2005, Claus Guttesen wrote: > elin% dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfssrv/dd.tst bs=1024 count=1048576 > 1048576+0 records in > 1048576+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 21.373114 secs (50237968 bytes/sec) > Follow-up, did the same dd on a Dell 2850 with a LSI Logic (amr), 6 sc

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Claus Guttesen
> You could use the atabeast to do two raid 5's, then use vinum to stripe those > two. I actually thought of that a while ago (unrelated to this). I read the vinum-page in the handbook, assume this is still valid. I recall a discussion regarding it's (re)naming to gvinum, but don't see any mentio

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-20 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:56:03PM -0700, Jin Guojun [VFFS] wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > >> My experience with 6.0-CURRENT has been that I am able to push at > >> least about 400kpps INTO THE KERNEL from a gigE em card on its own > >> 64-bit PCI

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-20 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:19:44PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > My experience with 6.0-CURRENT has been that I am able to push at > > least about 400kpps INTO THE KERNEL from a gigE em card on its own > > 64-bit PCI-X 133MHz bus (i.e., the bus is unc

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Claus Guttesen wrote: That's about what I expected. RAID 5 depends on fast xor, so a slow processor in a hardware RAID5 box will slow you down a lot. You should try taking the two RAID5's (6 disks each) created on your original controller and striping those together (RAID 50) - this should get you

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Claus Guttesen
> That's about what I expected. RAID 5 depends on fast xor, so a slow processor > in a hardware RAID5 box will slow you down a lot. > > You should try taking the two RAID5's (6 disks each) created on your original > controller and striping those together (RAID 50) - this should get you some > bet

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-20 Thread Jin Guojun [VFFS]
Bruce Evans wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Bosko Milekic wrote: My experience with 6.0-CURRENT has been that I am able to push at least about 400kpps INTO THE KERNEL from a gigE em card on its own 64-bit PCI-X 133MHz bus (i.e., the bus is uncontested) and that's A 64-bit bus doesn't seem to be ess

Slow realloc

2005-04-20 Thread Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert
Hi, Last week I got a request from my customer to check that why his PHP code run much slower on FreeBSD than the Linux machine. After sometime of checking I found the the problem is in the PHP serialize function which use a lot of realloc call with small (128 bytes) incremenent. I had sumbite

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-20 Thread bill fumerola
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Eivind Hestnes wrote: > It sounds sensible, but I have also learned that throwing hardware on a > problem is not always right.. Compared to shiny boxes from Cisco, HP > etc. a 500 Mhz router is for heavy duty networks. I would try some more > tweaking be

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-20 Thread Michael DeMan
Yes, Its also important to differentiate between routing and switching needs. Not in the regular layer-3 and layer-2 concept, but in the deployment environment you anticipate. If you really need high throughput ports, nothing will beat a regular switch (layer-2 or layer-3) because Cisco, 3COM

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Claus Guttesen wrote: elin% dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfssrv/dd.tst bs=1024 count=1048576 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 21.373114 secs (50237968 bytes/sec) Follow-up, did the same dd on a Dell 2850 with a LSI Logic (amr), 6 scsi-disks in a raid 5: frodo~%>dd

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Claus Guttesen
> elin% dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfssrv/dd.tst bs=1024 count=1048576 > 1048576+0 records in > 1048576+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 21.373114 secs (50237968 bytes/sec) > Follow-up, did the same dd on a Dell 2850 with a LSI Logic (amr), 6 scsi-disks in a raid 5: frodo~%>dd if=/dev/ze

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Claus Guttesen
> >>I think you are disk bound.. You should not be disk bound at this point > >>with a > >>good RAID controller.. > > Good point, it's an atabeast from nexsan. > Looks like they are indeed waiting on disk.. You could try making two 6 disk > raid5 in your controller, then striping those with vinum