Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Petri Helenius wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I don't know whose fault this is, VMWares or FreeBSD's, but virtualization is popular, and since FreeBSD is very much lagging behind for server-side virtualization (Xen, VMWare, etc. - jails and vimage What is the status of Xen port to FreeBSD ? (ha

Re: bizarre performance issues in 6.2 release

2007-02-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Steven H. Baeighkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:40:46 -0700): These servers are running apache, perl, proftpd and php. One server is running 4.11 and is rocking the world, load is rarely above 1 and is regularly below .5. The other server is running 6.2 and regular

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Vlad GALU
On 2/17/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: > Vlad GALU wrote: > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we >>

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > Vlad GALU wrote: > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we >> saw were in processes who were sleep()-ing. > > M

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Vlad GALU wrote: > At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it > seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running > vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we > saw were in processes who were sleep()-ing. My frst thought was that someth

Re: bizarre performance issues in 6.2 release

2007-02-17 Thread Cheffo
Hi all, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See kern/83406: [smp] em/bge drivers: severe performance loss under SMP sysctl machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0 (sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1) What actually do this ? (sysctl machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0) From this PR (kern/83406) it seems that if you want full

Re: : 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Robertson
Sack was never enabled, the packets in the flood had sack set. rtmaxcache was default, what made you think I had changed it? I was not running SMP, as I explained. More over suggestions to do ether.ipfw result in terrible performance, etc. A 4.11 bridge and 4.11 router in series move all

Re: bizarre performance issues in 6.2 release

2007-02-17 Thread garcol
See kern/83406: [smp] em/bge drivers: severe performance loss under SMP sysctl machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0 (sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1) Regards Alessandro >Try disabling hyperthreading on the 6.2-server. In some cases you get >a moderate performance-increase, in most cases this settin

RE:: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-17 Thread garcol
Hi, if you disable sack, what's happend? (sysctl net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=0) (Are Memory and cpu OK?) For route problem you can set this to a low value, for example 10 sysctl net.inet.ip.rtexpire: 10 See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html Why

Re: bizarre performance issues in 6.2 release

2007-02-17 Thread Claus Guttesen
We have been having some trouble with an upgrade to 6.2-Release. The performance just seems out of whack. We concede that there could be a reporting issue, but the results we are seeing are far too strange for that to be our first inclination. Background: We have 2 identical supermicro superserv