Re: interesting comparison of glob matching

2017-05-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/5/17 7:29 pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote: There is interesting comparison of implementation in different shells (csh, tcsh, bash, dash...) in different application or different libraries (glibc, BSD libc, MacOS) Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast Too https://research.swtch.com/glob I am no

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On 17/06/2016 3:16 PM, Jason Zhang wrote: Hi, I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its OS. But I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the performance of LSI MegaRAID 9260

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-REL - network unaccessible after high traffic

2015-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
I think I need to dig deep to find the root cause. Regards, Csaba 2015.05.25. 4:30 keltezéssel, Julian Elischer írta: On 5/24/15 11:12 PM, Cs wrote: Hi all, I have two FreeBSd 10.1-RELEASE servers connected to each other. They were connected via cross link, but they are connected to a cisco

Re: FreeBSD 10.1-REL - network unaccessible after high traffic

2015-05-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/24/15 11:12 PM, Cs wrote: Hi all, I have two FreeBSd 10.1-RELEASE servers connected to each other. They were connected via cross link, but they are connected to a cisco switch now. When transferring huge files (50-500GB backup files) via Gigabit (it is important!) the network randomly di

Re: I like iostat, but...

2014-09-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/23/14, 4:38 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: ... I rather wish I could get the same information via sysctl. (Well, something seems to be available via the "opaque" kern.devstat.all sysctl(8) variable, but sysctl(8) doesn't display all of it, and parsing it seems as if that would require knowledge ab

Re: Apparent performance regression 8.3@ -> 8.4@r255966?

2013-10-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/10/13 10:02 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: On 07/10/2013 19:28, David Wolfskill wrote:> At work, we have a bunch of machines that developers use to build some software. The machines presently run FreeBSD/amd64 8.3-STABLE @rxx (with a few local patches, which have since been committed to stable

Re: LLVM/CLANG and several OpenCL projects: FreeBSD or any *BSD developer involved?

2011-10-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/20/11 11:30 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: As I'm not a developer, but for scientific purposes highly interested in using GPUs, the only way of doing HPC computing at the moment is with nVidias TESLA/nVidia consumer graphics cards and LINUX, since on Linux one willing to use the GPU has the necess

Re: sysutils/sge6[012]: Sun Grid Engine - still broklen due to utmpx?

2011-09-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/23/11 12:04 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: I was wondering if the SUN Grid Engine, located in port sysutils/sge6[012] is still broken due to utmpx. My department uses this GRID engine on Linux and since a long time I wish to use it also on FreeBSD. Are there alternatives? What are people using on

Re: Zero-Copy for packet capture and mbuf question

2011-09-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/14/11 6:35 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: Has anyone used the zero-copy mechanism for an increased performance in packet capturing? I'm on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, I was thinking about trying it. It's for a network monitoring system, it just grabs and dumps all data from all my network segments. I've not

Re: Interrupt performance

2011-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/28/11 8:15 AM, Stefan Lambrev wrote: The overhead comes from badly written software. This software is optimized for linux and you have to optimize it for freebsd, then you will have the same overhead. All those *popular* benchmarks like hping, iperf, netperf have some strange optimizations

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/18/10 3:37 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri Nov 19 10, Daniel Nebdal wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Alexander Kabaev wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:56:35 + Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Nov 18 10, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:23:24PM + I heard t

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/18/10 10:55 AM, Lucius Windschuh wrote: 2010/11/18 Andriy Gapon: [Grouping of processes into TTY groups] Well, I think that those improvements apply only to a very specific usage pattern and are greatly over-hyped. But there are serious issue if you use FreeBSD as a desktop OS with SMP

Re: Tracking performance areas over time

2010-11-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/5/10 5:26 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Den 04/11/2010 kl. 18.07 skrev grarpamp: Not as comparison with FreeBSD but ideas for tracking FreeBSD performance across release/releng. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2612_2637&num=1 Provided the version of the unit test

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/25/10 9:55 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:50:10PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: ... try the 7.x machine but running the 8.x kernel.. i.e. change nothing, but boot the new kernel. ... OK; here are results of previous tests, along with the above. As noted earlier, I

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/22/10 4:48 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:17:30PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:50:10PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: ... try the 7.x machine but running the 8.x kernel.. i.e. change nothing, but boot the new kernel. I just started that

Re: Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

2010-10-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/20/10 10:48 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: [...] The 8.x reference machine was created by cloning the 7.x reference machine (the OS "drive" is a RAID 1; I broke the mirror and physically booted the (soon-to-be) 8.x machine from a single drive from the 7.x mirror, changed the hostname& IP ad

Re: massive load average spikes

2010-08-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/11/10 11:56 AM, markham breitbach wrote: On 11/08/10 11:59 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- [...] Sorry for the limited data, It's hard to know where to draw the line between useful data and information overload, but I'm more than happy to supply whatever other info you might find usef

Re: Strange Freebsd Router Problem

2009-12-26 Thread Julian Elischer
tvtube blog wrote: Dear All, Now a days I getting a Problem with my 4.11 FreeBSD Router with 3 Gigabits (bge) Broadcom Ethernet Cards, It was working fine and uses to pass more then 200 Mbits/s Internet Traffic but now a day not passing more then 90Mbits/s. Even All cards are have Giga Connectiv

Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Invernizzi Fabrizio wrote: The limitation that you see is about the max number of packets that FreeBSD can handle - it looks like your best performance is reached at 64 byte packets? If you are meaning in term of Packet per second, you are right. These are the packet per second measured during

Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Invernizzi Fabrizio wrote: Hi -Original Message- From: Stefan Lambrev [mailto:stefan.lamb...@moneybookers.com] Sent: lunedì 3 agosto 2009 11.22 To: Invernizzi Fabrizio Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card Hi, The limitation that you

Re: 1. thread switching time? (Krassimir Slavchev)

2008-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Krassimir Slavchev wrote: Also, I am able to set HZ=10 but the thread switching time is still ~1ms. You must be talking about the time that a thread can run before it is pushed out by other threads? I know I've seem many x 10,000 context switches in some cases, i.e. look at very high i

Re: Real Insight on Performance

2008-07-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Rahul wrote: Hi all, I am looking to install Unix (and/or like) system for server to run some highly computational and multi-threaded applications. My background being pretty much all Windows, I am a novice to this field. I have grasped some basics by reading some material on web and how-to book

Re: System perforamance 4.x vs. 5.x and 6.x

2008-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Kris Kennaway wrote: Brett Bump wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: We are going to need more information about your system. What do you mean by "peak activity"? What is running on the system when it performs badly (check top -S, ps, gstat, vmstat -w, vmstat -i). What is your

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-02-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: be a good time to try to revalidate that. Basically, the goal would be to make the pcpu cache FIFO as much as possible as that maximizes the chances that the newly allo

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: be a good time to try to revalidate that. Basically, the goal would be to make the pcpu cache FIFO as much as possible as that maximizes the you mean FILO or LIFO right? chances that the newly allocated object already has lines in the cache. It's a fairly trivial twea

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Alexander Motin wrote: Julian Elischer пишет: Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. While profiling netgraph operation on UP HEAD router I have found that huge amount of time it spent on memory allocation/deallocation: 0.14 0.05 132119/545292 ip_forward [12] 0.14 0.05 133127

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. While profiling netgraph operation on UP HEAD router I have found that huge amount of time it spent on memory allocation/deallocation: 0.14 0.05 132119/545292 ip_forward [12] 0.14 0.05 133127/545292 fxp_add_rfabuf [18] 0.27 0.

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Josh Carroll wrote: is bigger better or worse? For sysbench bigger is better (more transactions per second). For ffmpeg, lower is better - e.g. the time to transcode the first 120 seconds of the selected video is less, so it ran faster. don't forget to give this info when giving numbers :-)

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Josh Carroll wrote: I just ran through some of my benchmarks on a kernel build from sources as of today, and I've noticed an improvement for the ffmpeg workload. Here's a comparison of 4bsd, ule (BETA1) and ule (BETA3). This is vanilla source with no patches applied: Sorry, the ministat output

Re: interested in working on freeBSD

2007-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Sanket Somnath Hase wrote: Hi Matt , We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are enrolled in a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is developed and

Re: interested in working on freeBSD

2007-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Sanket Somnath Hase wrote: Hi Matt , We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are enrolled in a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is developed and deployed in the real world. Mu

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

2006-05-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Sven Petai wrote: are there any patches that take the gettimeofday() calls and replace them with something that is cheap such as only doing every 10th one and just returning the last value ++ 1 uSec for the other ones.. a ktrace of Mysql shows a LOT of gettimeofday() calls. On Tuesday 09 M