Re: Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-07 Thread mike tancsa
On 2/7/2021 10:50 AM, Walter von Entferndt wrote: > > - Inserting an I/O scheduler might improve performance, too (gsched(8)). > Yes, UFS is likely faster than ZFS on such a setup, but ZFS offers many > advantages in terms of administration, fault tolerance & reliability. Especially if the data i

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
ncsa.com/ule-bsd.html ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-per

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
> > Also what filesystem you were using? UFS > How many CPUs were in place? 4 > Did you reboot before to move the steal_thresh value? No. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
can, but how do I do that ? ---Mike -- ------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ free

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
7 39.4353840.59814114 Difference at 95.0% confidence 1.27033 +/- 0.412636 3.32852% +/- 1.08119% (Student's t, pooled s = 0.425627) a value of 1 is *slightly* faster. -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sent

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
dent's t, pooled s = 0.0200388) hardware is X3450 with 8G of memory. RELENG8 ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ont

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

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:36 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:05 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:34 PM 10/27/2010, David Wolfskill wrote: * release/7.1.0, with the following merged in: r186860 from stable/7 r190970 from stable/7 r203072 from head r209964 from stable/7 and using the MAC

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

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:05 PM 10/27/2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:34 PM 10/27/2010, David Wolfskill wrote: * release/7.1.0, with the following merged in: r186860 from stable/7 r190970 from stable/7 r203072 from head r209964 from stable/7 and using the MAC kernel config * stable/8 @r214029 using the

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

2010-10-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
tionsFLOWTABLE # per-cpu routing cache ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet

tuning zfs for large file reads

2010-07-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
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Re: Migrate large amount of small files

2009-10-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
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Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
TA300 chipset on AMD64, 8G of RAM. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:02 AM 12/24/2008, ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Comparing to your original numbers, it looks like you might have some debugging enabled there: the original 7.x results went from 13:57 to Yes, its a regular kernel and things like malloc are the default and from the dmesg WARNING: WITNESS o

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs. And buildworld from current 4,8 and 10 3287.

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs. It will have to wait for the next board as this

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:22 AM 12/23/2008, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past, > > having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance At least in >

intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
hed uhid0: at uhub4 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected uhid0: detached ukbd0: on uhub4 kbd2 at ukbd0 uhid0: on uhub4 ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:06 PM 11/25/2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. True, but then again is there such a thing as a synthetic benchmark that would have a margin of error less than 2% while representing

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:28 PM 11/24/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 Was interesting until I saw this:- "However, it's important to reiterate that all three operating systems were left in their stock configurations and that no additional twe

improving Samba performance

2008-10-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
Are there any suggestions for a AMD64 RELENG_7 box to improve samba performance ? Write throughput from a windows box seems a bit slower than it should be. ---Mike Mike Tancsa

Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance

2008-03-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:50 PM 3/4/2008, alan bryan wrote: Hi, I've got a new server with a 3ware 9550SXU with the Battery. I am using FreeBSD 7.0-Release (tried both 4BSD and ULE) using AMD64 and the 3ware performance for writes is just plain horrible. Something is obviously wrong but I'm not sure what. Not s

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:52 AM 3/3/2008, Thomas Krause (Webmatic) wrote: Pyun YongHyeon has fixed a lot of driver issues (i.e. re(4), bfr(4), vr(4)) over the last few months, many are already in CURRENT or RELENG_7 (not sure how many of them made it into 7.0-RELEASE) or posted as patches to the current@ mailing li

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:44 AM 2/29/2008, Chris wrote: A weakness of freebsd is its fussyness over hardware in particular network cards, time and time again I see posts here telling people to go out buying expensive intel pro 1000 cards just so they can use the operating system properly when I think its reasonable

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

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:27 PM 2/14/2008, Brett Bump wrote: stat doesn't show as much as gstat and iostat. Gstat alwasy shows my drive with /var/mail being 97-100% busy and iostat will always show hi tps rates, but never anything above 8MB/s (4.10 gave me 30MB/s+). If a lot of users are checking mail at once, t

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

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:09 PM 2/14/2008, Brett Bump wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 02:22 PM 2/14/2008, Brett Bump wrote: > > >I've recently upgraded a mailserver from a 4.x version to 6.2. > > I would say move to 6.3R as its a better release with a lot of bug >

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

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:22 PM 2/14/2008, Brett Bump wrote: I've recently upgraded a mailserver from a 4.x version to 6.2. I would say move to 6.3R as its a better release with a lot of bug fixes. In terms of your general performance issues, choice of hardware really makes a difference as quality of drivers c

Re: postgresql-performance using sysbench

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:31 AM 1/30/2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Claus Guttesen wrote: I forgot to mention in my first post that I'm using ULE. The p800 controller has a (factory set) 25/75 read/write cache ratio. There's maybe one additional thing: do you dual-boot Linux and FreeBSD? If so, you'll need to set up a

Re: newfs + gstat locks entire machine for 20seconds

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:24 PM 1/30/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: The plot thickens This stall is not just related to newfs you have to have gstat running as well. If I do the newfs without gstat running then no stall occurs. As soon as Im running gstat while doing the newfs then everything locks as described.

Re: postgresql-performance using sysbench

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:46 PM 1/28/2008, Claus Guttesen wrote: I had (allready) saved the thread in my mail-account so I could look it up before I started testing. :-) So I compiled postgresql with the option WITH_THREADSAFE=true and used sysbench with --pgsql-host="" . As pointed out by Ivan my test also involve

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:07 PM 12/19/2007, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: On 12/19/07, Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:09 PM 12/19/2007, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > > >The behavior that I'm observing and that want your help is when the > >system is accessing some di

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:09 PM 12/19/2007, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: The behavior that I'm observing and that want your help is when the system is accessing some directory with many small files ( directories with ~ 1 million of ~30kb files), the performance is very poor. Hi, Have you adjusted the dirha

Re: tuning for high connection rates

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:19 PM 12/5/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: After switching to net.isr.direct=0 and 346609775 good packets later, RX overruns haven't increased by one! Thats nice. Still interrupt is using up the CPU. I'm not quite sure if polling would help now!? Polling is helpful to prevent livelock. Not

Re: tuning for high connection rates

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:23 PM 12/5/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 07:14 PM 12/4/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > >> The debug output of em0 looks like this: >> >> em0: CTRL = 0x40140248 RCTL = 0x8002 >> em0: Packet buffer = Tx=20k Rx=12k >> em0: Flow

Re: tuning for high connection rates

2007-12-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:14 PM 12/4/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: The debug output of em0 looks like this: em0: CTRL = 0x40140248 RCTL = 0x8002 em0: Packet buffer = Tx=20k Rx=12k em0: Flow control watermarks high = 10240 low = 8740 em0: tx_int_delay = 66, tx_abs_int_delay = 66 em0: rx_int_delay = 32, rx_abs_int_d

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:08 AM 12/4/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: cache seems to be turned on in the web-based management. However, I still don't think this is OS-specific, since I see no OS-specific options, and 3ware makes the devices available through SCSI, and WC is handled differently there. Its the queuing

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:22 AM 12/4/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:06:55PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:56 PM 12/1/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > >I don't quite understand the question. It's the very same box, with > >a dualboot configuration. > > Fire

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:10 PM 12/2/2007, Peter Losher wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: > I think the card in question is twa in this case. Not in our case... Sorry, I was referring to the original posters card http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2007-November/002942.html The box i

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:54 PM 12/1/2007, Peter Losher wrote: Manjunath R Gowda wrote: > On 12/1/07, Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 3ware driver is under GIANT at 7.x. I don't know if it's the same for >> linux. > > It is not under GIANT any more, MPSAFE starting from 7.0 BETA1. I know in one cas

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:56 PM 12/1/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: I don't quite understand the question. It's the very same box, with a dualboot configuration. Fire up the 3ware controller's RAID management software and make sure the same write caching strategy is set for FreeBSD and Linux. The driver my default

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:33 AM 12/1/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > > > >The box is a dual opteron 246 with 12GB of memory with 10K RPM > >SATA disks on a 9550 3ware. > > > >So, what can cause this big difference? Are the caching options for the 3ware the same on FreeBSD as Linux ? ---Mike _

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:31 PM 11/30/2007, Jeff Roberson wrote: Though, maybe I should rebuild it dynamically to ensure it's linked against libthr (and not pthread or c_r)... So, any tips, guesses, anything what can cause this? I would make it dynamic instead of static. I seem to recall this issue in the past

Re: postgresql benchmarking

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:30 AM 3/14/2007, Edwin Mons wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:16 AM 3/14/2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >> On the pgsql side, disable the update_process_titles option (or >> whatever it is called), because this has a 33% performance overhead > > Hi, >

Re: postgresql benchmarking (was: Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64)

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:16 AM 3/14/2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: On the pgsql side, disable the update_process_titles option (or whatever it is called), because this has a 33% performance overhead Hi, Is this a version specific config option or compile ? I cant find anything like that in the .conf or man

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

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150

Re: UDP performance.

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:06 AM 2/28/2007, Peter Losher wrote: We recently put a stock Fedora Core 6 and a stock FreeBSD 6.2 on the same HW (HP ProLiant DL320 G5 Dual Core Xeons w/ 16GB RAM) and running Is that using PAE or AMD64 ? ---Mike ___ freebsd-perfor

Re: benchmark

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:43 PM 1/5/2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hi! I'm trying to meashure network throughput between two 6.2-PRERELEASE boxes, basically get maximim IP packets per second transmitted/received. Try /usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/ I did some tests with the results at http://www.tancsa.com/blast.htm

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:57 PM 11/30/2006, Ivan Voras wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: > Yeah I inadvertently slighted the NetBSD folks by leaving them out. So > I guess I better give them a try as well. > > The part that really surprises me is the drop in performance as firewall > rules are added to REL

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:51 AM 11/30/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote: Did a quick default install. Results are not so interesting since one stream livelocks the box. Basic stats at http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html If there are some OpenSolaris wizards out there who want me to tune, I am happy to retest... Mike, I'm n

Re: vlan forwarding performance (was Proposed em forwawrding performance)

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:35 PM 11/29/2006, Robert Watson wrote: You may want to datestamp the version of HEAD you're using in each test (assuming it changes between tests). Ahh, Good point. I have been using the sources always from Nov 24th to make comparisons as similar as possible for the tests with 7.0 wh

Re: vlan forwarding performance (was Proposed em forwawrding performance)

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
Did some more tests, this time using a single NIC interface in trunking mode. Strangely enough, the speed is a little faster on HEAD. Perhaps less interrupt processing ? Results in the usual place http://www.tancsa.com//blast.html ---Mike __

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:06 AM 11/28/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: FWIW I would definitively like to see it. But thanks for going so far.. Tried it with the patch branch. With the em nics, the box locks up with 2 streams. It works now with bge, but rates are pretty slow (220Kpps), and very slow with pf enable

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:28 AM 11/24/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. That would be very interesting. OK, I added OpenBSD to the mix as well. Results are pretty crappy with the base default install. With

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:06 AM 11/28/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:36:34 -0500 Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I added OpenBSD to the mix as well. Results are pretty crappy > with the base default install. With one stream, the box essentially > live locks. Thi

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:12 PM 11/25/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote: I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. Mike, Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris? I understand that it has a very robust IP stack. It would be Did a quick default install. Results are not so interesting since one st

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:12 PM 11/25/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote: I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. Mike, Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris? I understand that it has a very robust IP stack. It would be interesting to see how the three stack up against each other (FBSD, LINUS,

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:40 PM 11/24/2006, Steven Hartland wrote: Whats wrong with that web page the display is totally broken :( Try it now. ---Mike ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performa

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:03 PM 11/24/2006, Divacky Roman wrote: I see generic_bzero/bcopy used quite often. why dont you define cpu I586_CPU in your kernel config? Hi, I cvsup'd to todays kernel and re-ran some of the tests, controlling for CPU defs in the kernel. Posted at http://www.tancsa.com/b

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:03 PM 11/24/2006, Divacky Roman wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:28 AM 11/24/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > >> I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. &

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:28 AM 11/24/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. That would be very interesting. OpenBSD 4.0 i386 panics on boot. I also posted some results with PMC compiled into the kernel i

Re: Broadcom bge forwarding performance (was em forwarding performance )

2006-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
test setup description at http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html More testing :) This time with a pair of PCIe 1x bge nics, as well as using the patch at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-November/012389.html As I switched to bge, I could test against Dragonfly as well since

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:43 PM 11/23/2006, Vlad Galu wrote: Can you please completely remove the iptables support from your Linux configuration, as well as removing support for any packet filter in FreeBSD? Also, please enable fast_forwarding. I did that a while ago. See http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:09 AM 11/22/2006, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: It would be interesting to know the real performance of Linux as a mere router if we want a true comparision with FreeBSD performances. Re-tested, this time with a LINUX UP kernel and there is not that much difference in overall speeds. I added a

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:09 AM 11/22/2006, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi Mike, Thank you for spending that much time for benchmarking, this is really interesting. Hi, More to come, and if you can think of other tests let me know. Next is VLAN performance. Though this is a little bit off topic, I'm quite

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:50 AM 11/21/2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: The table is also up at http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html which might be easier to read Decided to test with RELENG_4 as a comparison. Quite a difference. With polling and fast forwarding on, I can use 2 routers to blast through at almost 1Mpps

Spam-Assassin Benchmarks (was Re: LINUX vs FreeBSD mysql performance using a large RT database

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:21 PM 10/20/2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: The next set of comparisons I want to run is in our spam scanners. The boxes which operate in round robin make heavy use of mysql, DNS OK, we are just getting ready to run some tests for this setup. SpamAssassin has some built in benchmarking that

Re: LINUX vs FreeBSD mysql performance using a large RT database

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:06 PM 10/20/2006, Ed Maste wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:57:46PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > With all the threads about poor FreeBSD performance, I wanted to test > it out myself to see how 64bit LINUX would compare using the same hardware. [ snip ] It seems your message en

LINUX vs FreeBSD mysql performance using a large RT database

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
every 1.000 msec da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 152566MB (312455168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19449C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a ---Mike

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 10/6/2006, Jerry Bell wrote: I have actually made the changes to my.cnf before I ran these. I expanded them quite a bit beyond what is in my-large.cnf. I need to pull them back Hi, I was just looking at this thread as its relevant to a new DB server I am trying to put tog

Re: Samba performance, TCP Stack Issue?

2006-09-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:14 PM 9/3/2006, Jan Zacharias wrote: So far i messed with: - ifconfig mtu leave it at 1500 unless everything talking to the box supports jumbo frames. (ie. all routers / switches in between) - net.inet.tcp settings OK, but what did you fiddle with ? what did you set net.inet.tc

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2006-05-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:42 PM 25/05/2006, Nash Nipples wrote: net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=1 who said u have to put it down? When you are on the same subnet, is it not automatically disabled ? ---Mike ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:54 AM 11/11/2005, Joao Barros wrote: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #5: Thu Nov 10 13:57:54 WET 2005 [EMAI

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:15 PM 02/11/2005, Michael VInce wrote: I have seen some network based SMP related performance problems vanish in 6.0 tests, admittedly I haven't done hard drive based tests but I wouldn't surprise me of performance drops on HDs in SMP on 6.0 are gone as well. Yes, I noticed that well.

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just to see if you're still happy a

Benchmarks to run (was Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:23 PM 31/10/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:52 AM 01/11/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: Which 3ware were they comparing ? The 9500SX was a little bit more than the 4 port ARECA here in Canada. It was the 9500SX.. Don't recall the models for the ARECA, but they compared it to two. I

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:23 PM 31/10/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:11 AM 29/10/2005, Francisco wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix

Re: Call for performance evaluation: net.isr.direct

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:12 PM 05/10/2005, Robert Watson wrote: Obviously, this is about two things: performance, and stability. Many of us ... Of particular interest is if changing to direct dispatch hurts performance in your environment, and understanding why that is. I enabled this last Monday on 2 SMP

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | 64Bit PCIX. | | Steve Hi Steve, I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very much. It's very easy to setup,

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
+0 records in 2+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 7.587819 secs (86370011 bytes/sec) Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: 19 October 2005 04:45 To: Steven Hartland; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:36 PM 18/10/2005, Steven Hartland wrote: Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.ar

RE: TCP Transfers slowing down

2005-08-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:36 AM 15/08/2005, Jason Coene wrote: Thanks for the response. I've attached what you requested as a text file in case the following gets garbled by Outlook. Hi It all looks nice and clean. Is there a slow down between the boxes ? I dont see any errors to speak of. One thing you

Re: TCP Transfers slowing down

2005-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:37 PM 14/08/2005, Jason Coene wrote: Before the update, the servers would sustain high transfer rates (well over 4 Mbyte/sec), but since the update that has changed. A transfer will start out at normal speed (as high as we've ever seen), but it will immediately and consistently drop to bet

RELENG_4 vs RELENG_5 for mail router

2005-06-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
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Re: sustained sequential disk IO runs interactivity into the ground

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:57 PM 20/06/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing a dd of dev/zero into a file on a UFS2 filesystem (softupdates disabled) on a clean 5.4-R system. I see the same issue on RELENG_5 with IDE disk. However, on FreeBSD nfs.sentex.ca 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Jun 17 No suc

FreeBSD router performance and PCI-Express NICs

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
While on the topic, has anyone tried http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=406 on FreeBSD ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x (some tweaking and more results)

2005-05-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
ed in 32.012170 secs (204722143 bytes/sec) Steve - Original Message ----- From: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, some further tests, trying to control for this. I am not sure what values to actually fiddle with via bsdlable as this is the entire disk so I will just v

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x (some tweaking and more results)

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:31 PM 02/05/2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes: >Using an amrc controller in RAID5, it doesnt make a difference really on >the dd stuff - read or write-- perhaps 2-5MB difference on the faster >side. Raw reads and writes wheth

Re: 64bit CPUs

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:48 PM 01/05/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ? Databases. Big ones, anyway. Other than that, not much, unless you're running processes

Re: 64bit CPUs

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:10 PM 01/05/2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:46:09AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Tancsa, and lo! it spake thus: > > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server > application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit > CPUs

64bit CPUs

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
these benefit from the 64bit world ? Or would they ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet

Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

2005-04-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:47 AM 20/04/2005, Claus Guttesen wrote: > elin% dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfssrv/dd.tst bs=1024 count=1048576 > 1048576+0 records in > 1048576+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 21.373114 secs (50237968 bytes/sec) > Follow-up, did the same dd on a Dell 2850 with a LSI Logic (amr), 6 sc