Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Daniel Bilik
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:01:05 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: > These are interesting results. Did you try tuning any of the jemalloc > options in /etc/malloc.conf? No tuning, jemalloc was tested "out of the box" just for curiosity. > I think increasing the number of arenas may help the contention

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 24 March 2013 11:45, Adam Vande More wrote: > jemalloc also has concurrency issues when threads > areas: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf Right. I still think it's worth trying the mysql test in a debian/kfreebsd install in a jail on the same machine you

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adam Vande More
jemalloc also has concurrency issues when threads > areas: http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > The contention is due to memory allocations being page aligned and > those pools all hitting the same cache line

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
The contention is due to memory allocations being page aligned and those pools all hitting the same cache line mappings. Adrian On 24 March 2013 09:09, Adam Vande More wrote: > I think increasing the number of arenas may help the contention, eg "ln -s > 3N /etc/malloc.conf" > > On Sun, Mar 24

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adam Vande More
I think increasing the number of arenas may help the contention, eg "ln -s 3N /etc/malloc.conf" On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > These are interesting results. Did you try tuning any of the jemalloc > options in /etc/malloc.conf? > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM, D

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adam Vande More
These are interesting results. Did you try tuning any of the jemalloc options in /etc/malloc.conf? On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Daniel Bilik wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:03:27 +0100 > Davide D'Amico wrote: > > > Hi, I'm doing performance tests on a DELL R720, follows dmesg: > > ... > > I

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Paul Pathiakis
I haven't worked with CentOS since 6.0.  I work on many other variants at this time.  I'm more than happy to take a look after I get my company off the ground  (A couple more months or land my next contracting gig) Anyhow,  unlike with jails, it seems no matter what type of VM I use, there'

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
... and how about setting up MySQL inside a Linux jail? Say, installing debian/kfreebsd in a jail and then testing mysql in there? Adrian ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance T

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Bill Totman
On 3/23/13 3:44 AM, Davide D'Amico wrote: Il 23.03.2013 01:34 Paul Pathiakis ha scritto: Hi, There are several things about this that are highly suspect. First, wipe out the hardware RAID. The processor doing RAID computation is, probably, MUCH slower than a core on the CPU. Even if it's RAID-

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Daniel Bilik
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:11:53 +0100 Davide D'Amico wrote: > Ok, I'll try tomorrow and I'll post results here. Some particular > parameter to use? Well, sysbench's "simple" is really simple ;-), it performs a single SELECTs (unlike "nontrx", which can be made to perform also writes). Table size yo

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Daniel Bilik
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:59:29 +0100 Davide D'Amico wrote: > I'll try the 'simple' dataset, but do you think I have some chance to > "solve" the issue? Not sure. But in case you'll get much more similar (CentOS vs. FreeBSD) results from "simple" OLTP test, as opposed to very differrent numbers fo

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Davide D'Amico
Ok, I'll try tomorrow and I'll post results here. Some particular parameter to use? Daniel Bilik ha scritto: >On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:59:29 +0100 >Davide D'Amico wrote: > >> I'll try the 'simple' dataset, but do you think I have some chance to > >> "solve" the issue? > >Not sure. But in case yo

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 vs CentOS 6.3

2013-03-24 Thread Davide D'Amico
Il 24.03.2013 07:10 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ha scritto: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Davide D'Amico wrote: Il 22.03.2013 16:56 Евгений Хоркин ha scritto: Hi Davide! Sorry if I do a reply 'here' but some posts where filtered by antispam. To Daniel Bilik: yes, I used the 'complex' OLTP