FreeBSD 7.1 taskq em performance

2009-04-24 Thread Joseph Kuan
Hi all, I have been hitting some barrier with FreeBSD 7.1 network performance. I have written an application which contains two kernel threads that takes mbufs directly from a network interface and forwards to another network interface. This idea is to simulate different network environment. I

Re: Presentation of performance data & analysis?

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, David-- On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:50 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: While I don't have any PHBs in my direct management chain, I've seen some PHB tendencies in the management of the folks I'm supporting. And I get the message that "complicated" won't ccommunicate to them. Nor will "nuanced." E

Re: Presentation of performance data & analysis?

2009-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
David Wolfskill wrote: > I apologize, as this is a bit tangential to the description of the list. > > I've been doing some measurements of workloads of interest (in my case, > the workload is building some software, and the metric of greatest > interest is "elapsed time" (which I obtain via /usr/b

Presentation of performance data & analysis?

2009-04-24 Thread David Wolfskill
I apologize, as this is a bit tangential to the description of the list. I've been doing some measurements of workloads of interest (in my case, the workload is building some software, and the metric of greatest interest is "elapsed time" (which I obtain via /usr/bin/time)). And I've been using p