Re: Tarball of ported libmicro 0.3 available for testing...

2005-08-07 Thread Claus Guttesen
> > > I plan to make a port of this this weekend, but would like some > > > feedback on this set of benchmarks. If they're useful I think we > > > should make them part of a nightly benchmarking strategy. > > I ran them on my dual Xeon @ 2.4 GHz, but it appears that rather than doing it's calcul

Re: [RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Xin LI wrote: [Bcc'ed to -developers@, so this can be discussed in a public list] Hi, It seems that vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is set to 2MB. I think this value is slightly too small for modern machines: My proposal is to increase the default dirhash_maxmem value to at least

Re: Tarball of ported libmicro 0.3 available for testing...

2005-08-07 Thread Xin LI
在 2005-08-08一的 03:15 +0200,Suleiman Souhlal写道: > Hello, > > On Aug 6, 2005, at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I plan to make a port of this this weekend, but would like some > > feedback on this set of benchmarks. If they're useful I think we > > should make them part of a nightly benc

Re: changing max_connections in postgresql on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-07 Thread Michael VInce
Hi, I have done all my Postgres optimization configuration via sysctl or the postgresql.conf no kernel recompilation was performed. I did benchmarks at complete default FreeBSD / Postgres configuration and benchmarks after. I found raising the values to probably not much more then 1/4 of what

Re: Tarball of ported libmicro 0.3 available for testing...

2005-08-07 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Hello, On Aug 6, 2005, at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to make a port of this this weekend, but would like some feedback on this set of benchmarks. If they're useful I think we should make them part of a nightly benchmarking strategy. In case you're interested, I ran it on a dua

Re: [RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread Darren Reed
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:51:29AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: ... > My proposal is to increase the default dirhash_maxmem value to at least > 32MB or 64MB. Any objections? > > Cons for this, discussed in -developer: > - dirhash does not implements automatical mechanism to reduce memory >usage in r

Re: [RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread David Malone
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:51:29AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > My proposal is to increase the default dirhash_maxmem value to at least > 32MB or 64MB. Any objections? I think autotuning the value on boot might be a good idea, providing that there's reasonable evidence that the existing value is too sm

Re: LibMicro: Portable Microbenchmarks

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Nottebrock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi guys; > > This looks pretty interesting... > > "LibMicro is a portable set of microbenchmarks that many Solaris engineers > used > [...] You mean like the libmicro mentioned in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2005-August/001445.html ? :-)

Re: [RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread Xin LI
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:57:50PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: [snip] > On the other hand, I've got several firewall boxes with only 128MB, and > it's not reasonable to simply dedicate up to 64MB (half!) to dirhash > without paying more attention to the amount of physical memory that is > actuall

Re: [RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Xin LI wrote: It seems that vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is set to 2MB. I think this value is slightly too small for modern machines: [ ... ] My proposal is to increase the default dirhash_maxmem value to at least 32MB or 64MB. Any objections? You are undoubtedly right that allocating only 2MB fo

[RFC] Bumping ufs.dirhash_maxmem to a larger value?

2005-08-07 Thread Xin LI
[Bcc'ed to -developers@, so this can be discussed in a public list] Hi, It seems that vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is set to 2MB. I think this value is slightly too small for modern machines: - There are many applications that relies on small files. CVS, maildir, etc. For these applications a ty

LibMicro: Portable Microbenchmarks

2005-08-07 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hi guys; This looks pretty interesting... "LibMicro is a portable set of microbenchmarks that many Solaris engineers used during Solaris 10 development to measure the performance of various system and library calls. LibMicro was developed by Bart Smaalders and Phil Harman as part of their If anot

disk read vs. write performance in 5.4-RELEASE-p6

2005-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
Hello, After reading man tuning, I began poking around at my IDE drives to see how their performance was in FreeBSD. I noticed that writes are quite slow (on the order of 15MB/s) compared to reads (55MB/s). In some initial googling, I saw a thread from early 2005 about 5.3 and performance problem