Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II > wrote: >> Hello fellow listers, >> >> On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not >> being auto-tuned to use >32985348587

Re: vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size capped at 329853485875 (~307GB)

2012-08-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > Hello fellow listers, > > On a server with 512GB RAM it appears that vm.kmem_size_max is not > being auto-tuned to use >329853485875 (~307GB). > > On this machine vm.kmem_size is equal to vm.kmem_size_max > > # from sysctl > vm.kmem_si

Re: Intel XEON Phi: Linux only?

2012-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Scott Long wrote: > On Jun 19, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> I bet the answer is something like "Get FreeBSD up on it or work with >> someone who can help you do that." >> >> It's a catch-22 just like GPU - unless ${COMPANY} has customers using >> it,

Re: ufs multilabel performance (fwd)

2012-04-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:30 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am 04/15/12 15:59, schrieb Richard Kojedzinszky: >> Thank you for the reply. >> >> Unfortunately, dont know why, but on my xen virtualised environment, >> fbsd amd64 domU performs much slower, not only 30 times. Without >> multilabel, file creati

Re: ufs multilabel performance (fwd)

2012-04-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Apr 15, 2012, at 1:17 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am 04/15/12 22:00, schrieb Garrett Cooper: >> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:30 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >>> Am 04/15/12 15:59, schrieb Richard Kojedzinszky: >>>> Thank you for the reply. >>>>

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2012-01-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM,   wrote: >> Thanks. >> >> My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark to >> ensure expected behaviour. >> > Why should you have to tune anything ? Did you tune the Oracle

Re: cmp(1) has a bottleneck, but where?

2012-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: > Task: cp(1) a several-GB file from one drive to another, > then run cmp(1) to verify. Cp runs as expected, but > cmp runs slower than expected. Neither the disks > nor the cpu is maxed out. Local drives, no network > involved

Re: cmp(1) has a bottleneck, but where?

2012-01-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: >>> Task: cp(1) a several-GB file from one drive to another, >>> then run cmp(1) to verify.  Cp runs as expected, but >>> cmp runs slower than expected.  Neither the disks >>> nor the cpu is maxed out.  Local drives, no network >>> involved.  Machi

Re: cmp(1) has a bottleneck, but where?

2012-01-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: > Task: cp(1) a several-GB file from one drive to another, > then run cmp(1) to verify.  Cp runs as expected, but > cmp runs slower than expected.  Neither the disks > nor the cpu is maxed out.  Local drives, no network > involved.  Machine is othe

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 23/12/2011 02:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >>>> On 12/21/11

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. >>> Now... in case someone here is will

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source >> says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter wher

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow > wrote: >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just >> found recently (my s

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
My personal thoughts on all of the complaints that FreeBSD isn't fast enough and the Phoronix benchmarks aren't representative of true FreeBSD performance. Disclaimer: I don't know if the Phoronix benchmarks do tuning out of the box or not on Linux, so if they do, please correct me Matthew. The u

Re: ffmpeg & ULE

2011-10-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > What is FBFS? http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-07-13.testing-the-new-fbfs-scheduler.html ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performanc

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, August 28, 2011 a las 07:27:49PM +0100, Chris Rees escribió: > >> On 27 August 2011 20:32, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Hartmann, O. >> > wrote: >> >

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Garrett Cooper >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz >>> wrote: >>

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El día Sunday, August 28, 2011 a las 07:27:49PM +0100, Chris Rees escribió: >> >>> On 27 August 2011 20:32, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> > On Sat

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > This website should be brushed up or taken offline! > It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days. > > http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html Agreed. Things have changed quite a bit in the last decade. -Garrett __

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
tting, the system is likely responsive as 7-STABLE. > > On 11/19/10, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Oliver Pinter >> wrote: >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/392 >>> >>> On 11/18/10, O. Hartmann wrote: >>>> On

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/392 > > On 11/18/10, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 11/18/10 02:30, grarpamp wrote: >>> Just documenting regarding interactive performance things. >>> This one's from Linux. >>> >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:59:43PM +, Alexander Best wrote: >> >> well i did exactly what they did in the video. watch a 1080p video and move >> the output window around while compiling the kernel. >> > > It is trivial to bring ULE to its k

Re: Intel TurboBoost in practice

2010-07-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2010, at 14:53, Alexander Motin wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I've make small observations of Intel TurboBoost technology under >> FreeBSD. This technology allows Intel Core i5/i7 CPUs to rise frequency >> of some cores if other cores are idl

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > Dear hackers, > > While fiddling with the sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware, I found out that on > my system HPET is significantly faster than ACPI-fast. Using the program > below I measured the number of clock_gettime() calls the system can