Re: FFS - Still using rotational delay with modern disks?

2012-12-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 16:44:11 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: > The newfs man page says: > > -a maxcontig > Specify the maximum number of contiguous blocks that will be laid > out before forcing a rotational delay.  The default value is 16. > See tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 23:05:32 -0800, R. B. Riddick wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Sufficiently large data blocks" equates to several megabytes. >> Currently MAXPHYS, the largest transfer request that would get to

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 30 October 2006 at 7:11:29 +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> Single stream tests aren't very good examples for RAID-5, because it >> performs writes in two steps: first it reads the old data, then it >> writes t

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 11:20:33 -0600, Steve Peterson wrote: > Petri -- thanks for the idea. It would be a good idea to quote it. Following this thread is almost impossible. > I ran 2 dds in parallel; they took roughly twice as long in clock > time, and had about 1/2 the throughput of the

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 22:19:17 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > > According to my understanding vinum does not overlap requests to > multiple disks when running in raid5 configuration Yes, it does. I suspect that gvinum does too. > so you're not going to achieve good numbers with just "s

Re: Is the fsync() fake on FreeBSD6.1?

2006-06-26 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 June 2006 at 10:18:47 +0800, leo huang wrote: > Hi, > > I benchmarked MySQL 4.1.18 on FreeBSD 6.1 and Debian 3.1 using Super Smack > 1.3 some days ago. > > ... > > The result surprise me. The MySQL Performance on FreeBSD6.1 is about > 10 times of on Debian3.1??and the output of iosta

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

2006-05-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 8 May 2006 at 21:11:09 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:43:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:52:07AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> OK, David's patch fixes the umtx thundering herd (and seems to give a >>> 4-6% boost). I also fixed

Re: MySQL Deadlocks (Was: Re: Benchmark MySQL Performance On FreeBSD And Linux)

2006-01-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 15 December 2005 at 22:18:58 -0800, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Dec 15, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 16 December 2005 at 11:20:12 +0800, huang leo wrote: >>> >>> We had evaluated MySQL performance on FreeBSD and Linux

Re: Benchmark MySQL Performance On FreeBSD And Linux

2006-01-06 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 10:49:48 +0800, Leo Huang wrote: >> Personally I was surprised by this statement that libpthread wasn't >> working for his test, for me it does benchmark a tad slower but I have >> always seen libpthread as the most stable threading library. > > I am surprised too. B

Re: Benchmark MySQL Performance On FreeBSD And Linux

2005-12-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 16 December 2005 at 11:20:12 +0800, huang leo wrote: > > We had evaluated MySQL performance on FreeBSD and Linux. The result is > attached. Thank you! This is some of the most plausible information I've seen in a while. I'm forwarding it to a MySQL internal list, and I expect we'll dis

Re: new benchmarks. WAS: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-12-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 9 December 2005 at 8:23:26 +0800, David Xu wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I've heard this claim again and again, and I intend to look at it when >> I have time. I find it difficult to believe that this alone could >> explain the somet

Re: Benchmark for MySQL 5.0 + FreeBSD 6-STABLE

2005-12-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 12 December 2005 at 12:59:32 +0800, Gea-Suan Lin wrote: > 3*2*2*2 = 24 cases: > > # Compile Options: none, WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH=yes, WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes > # /etc/libmap.conf: none (libpthread), libthr > # kern.timecounter.choice: ACPI-fast, TSC > # kernel: ULE+PREEMPTION, ULE > > I put

Re: new benchmarks. WAS: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-12-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 2 December 2005 at 13:23:50 +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > It would be good to actually see the Linux performance on the exact same > hardware, all we ever see is how it is on FreeBSD. > > MySQL has very frequent use of queries of the system time and is > well known in FreeBSD to be slow