Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Nick Evans
> This is interesting. I have had a couple of laptop users report success > in using lower power saving modes with ULE. Are these core temp > observations repeatable? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > > > Thanks again for all your help! Please let me know if/when I can do > > anything else to help out

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-10-24 Thread Nick Evans
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:39:29 -0400 "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5-6% is a lot. ULE has some tuning for makeworld in -current, which > > for me reduced it to less than 1% slower than 4BSD (down from 5-10% > > slower), for the case of makeworld -j4 over nfs on a 2-CPU system with >

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-10-24 Thread Nick Evans
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:39:52 -0400 "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kern.sched.steal_thresh is/was one of the more effective tuning sysctls. > > rev 1.205 of sched_ule had a change that was supposed to automatically > > adjust it based on the number of cores. Is this the same 8 core s

Re: New SCHED_SMP diff.

2007-07-12 Thread Nick Evans
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Jeff Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fixed a major bug in SCHED_SMP that impacted some users causing bad > performance and invalid load counts. Attilio also added support for i386 > based machines. I have tested on UP which works although INVARIA

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Evans
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:52:51 -0400 (EDT) "Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > I've looked through some of the lists here and have seen super-smack > results in the 42k qps range on a 2 dual core opteron system. I'm abl

Re: Samba Performance problem

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Evans
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:19:49 +0200 Divacky Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:42:41PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:30:23 -0400 > > Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Nick Evans wrote: >

Re: Samba Performance problem

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Evans
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:30:23 -0400 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Evans wrote: > > Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Quite possibly, just as MySQL has been written with Linux primarily in > >> mind. > > > >

Re: Samba Performance problem

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Evans
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:51:19 -0400 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Zacharias wrote: > > Btw. the same problem exists on MAC OSX, as OSX also uses a BSD Kernel > > the problem might be, that samba was optimized for the linux kernel > > tcp stack. > > Quite possibly, just as MySQL has

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Evans
> > > > I have the same issue here on several different systems. I have not been > able to get throughput past ~70 megabits. Most times smbd hovers around > 5-10% CPU usage on a Duron 1200 system. With this one system upgrading from > a P2-350, to an Athlon 900 to the Duron 1200 have not changed p

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Evans
On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > has anyone actually managed to speed up the thing up to 10-12 MB/s > > i have a good 7-9 MB/s on large files and that should be enough, but still, > out of curiosity? > > Oh by the way: > 100 MB et

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

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Evans
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:58:43 -0800 "Gustavo A. Baratto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The numbers are roughly the same with HTT disabled. For example for libthr: > > HTT disabled: > --- > # date; for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do super-smack select-key-mysql.smack 10 1000 | > grep select_index; done

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Evans
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:48:14 -0500 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > There are a number of TCP related configuration frobs on FreeBSD. It > > would be quite interesting to know how modifying each of the following > > settings affects Samba performance: > > > > n

Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Evans
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:24:18 -0500 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arkadi Shishlov wrote: > > Joao Barros wrote: > > > >> On a P4 3.06GHz with HTT enabled and ULE I get the same results. > >> I get a flat line at 58% looking at the bandwith in task manager on a > >> Windows 2003 Serve

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-30 Thread Nick Evans
27;s*2 for thread_concurrency thread_concurrency = 8 # max conns max_connections=8000 On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:00:44 -0400 Nick Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried this on my dual opteron test rig and didn't notice a difference > in performance with noatime set. Wha

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-29 Thread Nick Evans
I just tried this on my dual opteron test rig and didn't notice a difference in performance with noatime set. What did make a difference was moving from fxp to bge network cards. bge supports checksum offloading where fxp only supports interrupt bundling. Freed up another 20% idle during my test ru