Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-03 Thread Peter Losher
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: My beef with the DNS tests was that ISC ran out and bought the hardware FIRST, -then- they started testing. This is directly contrary to every bit of advice ever given in the computer industry for the last 50 years - you select the software FIRST, -then- you buy the hard

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-02 Thread Peter Losher
Mike Tancsa wrote: > I think the card in question is twa in this case. Not in our case... -=- twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port 0x9c00-0x9c0f mem 0xfb6ffc00-0xfb6ffc0f,0xfa80-0xfaff irq 29 at device 3.0 on pci1 twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twe0: [ITHREAD]

Re: mysql scaling questions

2007-12-01 Thread Peter Losher
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 case on a box running BETA2 the kernel dmesg re

Re: UDP performance.

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Losher
Mike Tancsa wrote: > Is that using PAE or AMD64 ? amd64 in both cases (Linux and FreeBSD) -Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

UDP performance.

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Losher
Ivan Voras wrote: > I agree in general, but MySQL performance is very exposed as an advocacy > issue - it has traditionally been the source of statements like > "FreeBSD's threading implementation is weak/bad/broken". And these days ISC can't consciously recommend FreeBSD for use on high-traffic

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Losher
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:36 pm, Steven Hartland wrote: > Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend > 64Bit PCIX. I personally would reccommend the HighPoint RocketRAID series (we use the 1820A here on a dual Opteron system running 5.4/amd64) We are using the HP-provided hp

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Peter Losher
Steven Hartland wrote: > 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) > dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 65536 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec) Have you tried the driver supplied by Highpoint as a pre-compiled