Re: UCD-MIB for bsnmpd?

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Amesbury
Alan Amesbury wrote: [snip] > I'd like to run bsnmpd, but need the UCD-MIB for other performance > monitoring. I could run net-snmp and proxy requests through it to > bsnmpd, but that strikes me as inelegant. There's a bsnmpd-ucd module > at Google > > htt

UCD-MIB for bsnmpd?

2008-01-17 Thread Alan Amesbury
f so, which one? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide! -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any

Re: how to check bsd performance

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Amesbury
functioning *before* you start tweaking it. -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-05 Thread Alan Amesbury
than ixgb(4), as PCIe and support in 6-STABLE are extremely compelling. Thanks again for the help! -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Amesbury
I don't think PCI-X can't keep up with a saturated 10Gb link), I'd appreciate pointers. Thanks again to those who responded... and thanks in advance to those who join in on this thread later. :-) -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota

Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-01 Thread Alan Amesbury
idiculously fast packet capture? As always, thanks in advance! -- Alan Amesbury OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Amesbury
ervals shorter than five seconds, though, as some of those tools have historically had counters that didn't update meaningfully in intervals shorter than that. There's also the question of jitter, noise, whatever. Also, if you want to benchmark the filesystem code

Re: network perf : em driver ?

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Amesbury
posting) said that scp is *faster* than HTTP. Since SMP is apparently involved, I'm wondering if this is related to the various em(4) problems noted earlier in a number of threads on -stable and -hackers. I'd suggest checking those for clues, particularly if SMP actually is being us

Re: Polling tuning and performance

2006-12-15 Thread Alan Amesbury
ode for setting LEDs busy-waits for several mS which is several polling > periods. It must be about 13mS to lose 3200 packets when packets > are arriving at 240 kpps. > > With a network server you won't be hitting Caps Lock a lot but have to > worry about other low-

Polling tuning and performance

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Amesbury
ax=1000: - kern.polling.burst is frequently 1000 and almost always >850 - 'vmstat 5' shows context switches unchanged, but interrupts are 150K-190K - 'vmstat -i' unchanged from burst_max=150 - CPU load and CPU idle time ve