Re: BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: It's at least arguable that doing queries against a data set including a bunch of repeats is "skewed" in a more realistic fashion. :-) A quick look at some of the data sources I have handy such as http access logs or Squid proxy logs suggests tha

Re: BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Kris-- This was interesting, thanks for putting together the testing and graphs. On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: I have been benchmarking BIND 9.4.1 recursive query performance on an 8-core opteron, using the resperf utility (dns/dnsperf in ports). The query data set w

Re: BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:53:01PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Kris-- > > This was interesting, thanks for putting together the testing and > graphs. > > On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >I have been benchmarking BIND 9.4.1 recursive query performance on an > >8-core opt

Re: Call for testers, amd64 only, new scheduler. (fwd)

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Jeff, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:37:44 PM, you wrote: > I'm forwarding this email that I sent to current@ in the hopes that some > performance minded people will tell me their results with this new > scheduler infrastructure. Just a quick and maybe silly question: Why does it pefrofms

Re: BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:36:55AM -0300, NOC Meganet wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 05:48:17 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 6.2 was used from CVS with libthr and the 4BSD scheduler (ULE 1.0 is > > broken in 6.x). > > just curious what is broken because I use ULE on several servers perfectly. > it

Re: BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread NOC Meganet
On Thursday 14 June 2007 05:48:17 Kris Kennaway wrote: > 6.2 was used from CVS with libthr and the 4BSD scheduler (ULE 1.0 is > broken in 6.x). just curious what is broken because I use ULE on several servers perfectly. it seems to me that ULE is even faster on SMP when not having heavy load. Al

Re: PAPI in the ports

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi NOC Meganet wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 06:59:41 Thomas Vogt wrote: >> Hi >> >> Thats sounds nice. You wrote "The goal of the PmcTools project is to >> provide FreeBSD's developers and system administrators with >> non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and >> analys

Re: PAPI in the ports

2007-06-14 Thread NOC Meganet
On Thursday 14 June 2007 06:59:41 Thomas Vogt wrote: > Hi > > Thats sounds nice. You wrote "The goal of the PmcTools project is to > provide FreeBSD's developers and system administrators with > non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and > analysing system performance" your we

Re: PAPI in the ports

2007-06-14 Thread Harald Servat
Hello, 2007/6/14, Thomas Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Thats sounds nice. You wrote "The goal of the PmcTools project is to provide FreeBSD's developers and system administrators with non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and analysing system performance" your website. Ha

Re: PAPI in the ports

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi Thats sounds nice. You wrote "The goal of the PmcTools project is to provide FreeBSD's developers and system administrators with non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and analysing system performance" your website. Have you ever measured the performance impact of such too

PAPI in the ports

2007-06-14 Thread Harald Servat
Hello, I'm glad to announce you that PAPI-3.5.0 has reached the FreeBSD ports tree and now it's generally available for all FreeBSD users. Port information is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=papi&stype=all&sektion=devel See http://code.google.com/p/papi-for-freebsd/wi

BIND 9.4.1 performance on FreeBSD 6.2 vs. 7.0

2007-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
I have been benchmarking BIND 9.4.1 recursive query performance on an 8-core opteron, using the resperf utility (dns/dnsperf in ports). The query data set was taken from www.freebsd.org's httpd-access.log with some of the highly aggressive robot IP addresses pruned out (to avoid huge numbers of re