Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Gunther, I can at least share some experiences from the other side, and how they can apply to FreeBSD. On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 1:53 AM Gunther Schadow wrote: > > Hi, I've been with FreeBSD since 386BSD 0.0new. Always tried to run > everything on it. I saw us lose the epic race against Linux

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Gunther Schadow
Hi Sean and Brendan On 2/5/2021 6:14 PM, Sean Chittenden wrote: To be clear, this is a known issue that needs attention: it is not a benchmarking setup problem. Network throughput has a similar problem and needs similar attention. Cloud is not a fringe server workload. -sc I am so glad you

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
To be clear, this is a known issue that needs attention: it is not a benchmarking setup problem. Network throughput has a similar problem and needs similar attention. Cloud is not a fringe server workload. -sc On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > On 2021-02-05 12:45, Gunth

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Jin Guojun[VFF]
On 2021-02-05 12:45, Gunther Schadow wrote: Gordon Bergling wrote: Can you verify your feelings by numbers? Yes, like I said Not by a few % points, but by factors if not an order of magnitude! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253261 Do this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvd2

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Gunther Schadow
Gordon Bergling wrote: Can you verify your feelings by numbers? Yes, like I said Not by a few % points, but by factors if not an order of magnitude! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253261 Do this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvd2 bs=100M status=progress and you see that it'

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Gordon Bergling
Sorry, for top posting. Can you verify your feelings by numbers? --Gordon On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:53:33AM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote: > Hi, I've been with FreeBSD since 386BSD 0.0new. Always tried to run > everything on it. I saw us lose the epic race against Linux over the > stupid BSDI la

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread claudiu vasadi
FreeBSD got killed a long time ago. thank the leadership, or lack thereof, for it. I was in your shoes and I had no choice but to ditch it all together eventually. want pf? openbsd. want something else, go linux :shrug: several on the forum (old and new) feel the same and had to make the same decis

FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 long standing performance problems

2021-02-05 Thread Gunther Schadow
Hi, I've been with FreeBSD since 386BSD 0.0new. Always tried to run everything on it. I saw us lose the epic race against Linux over the stupid BSDI lawsuit. But now I'm afraid I am witnessing the complete fading of FreeBSD from relevance in the marketplace as the performance of FreeBSD on AWS EC2