Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Kris Kennaway wrote: I'm saying that the 7.0-CVS sources, which are graphed, are unlikely to differ significantly from 6.2-CVS, i.e. they do not show good scaling on this benchmark because of the problems with filedesc locking in CVS. Could you give a link to the 7.0-CVS graph? Pete _

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Francisco Reyes wrote: Petri Helenius writes: The point in threading is that different threads can execute simultaneously on multiple CPU's. What combination of FreeBSD+Mysql will have multiple threads run by different CPUs? In the few SMP FreeBSD + Mysql setups (mysql 4.X) that I ha

Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Francisco Reyes wrote: A little confused. Does this mean FreeBSD will split the threads into multiple CPUs? The point in threading is that different threads can execute simultaneously on multiple CPU's. Pete ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org ma

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
With this great progress, it would be even greater if there would be way to run virtualization (Xen) when 7.0 hits the street. Pete ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To uns

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:00:32AM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: This shows the graph of MySQL transactions/second performed by a multi-threaded client workload against a local MySQL database with varying numbers of client threads, with

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Petri Helenius
Kris Kennaway wrote: This shows the graph of MySQL transactions/second performed by a multi-threaded client workload against a local MySQL database with varying numbers of client threads, with identically configured FreeBSD and Linux systems on the same machine. How does that compare to 6.2-

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-16 Thread Petri Helenius
Ivan Voras wrote: I don't know whose fault this is, VMWares or FreeBSD's, but virtualization is popular, and since FreeBSD is very much lagging behind for server-side virtualization (Xen, VMWare, etc. - jails and vimage What is the status of Xen port to FreeBSD ? (haven't heard about it late

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Petri Helenius
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 the new data. If it really does it this way, instead doing write-only when writing sufficiently large blocks, that would e

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-29 Thread Petri Helenius
disk subsystem that supports an aggregate ~100MB/sec transfer raw to the underlying disks, is it reasonable to expect a ~5MB/sec transfer rate for a RAID5 hosted on that subsystem -- a 95% overhead. In my opinion, no. Pete Steve At 01:19 PM 10/28/2006, Petri Helenius wrote: According

Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-28 Thread Petri Helenius
According to my understanding vinum does not overlap requests to multiple disks when running in raid5 configuration so you're not going to achieve good numbers with just "single stream" tests. Pete Steve Peterson wrote: Eric -- thanks for looking at my issue. Here's a dd reading from one

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-12-06 Thread Petri Helenius
Mike Tancsa wrote: 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,

increasing buffer cache

2005-09-27 Thread Petri Helenius
What are the parameters that need to be tuned on amd64 platform to get, say 1-1.5G buffer cache? Pete ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: Regression testing (was Re: Performance issue)

2005-05-10 Thread Petri Helenius
This sounds somewhat similar to Solaris dtrace stuff? Pete Bakul Shah wrote: This thread makes me wonder if there is value in runing performance tests on a regular basis. This would give an early warning of any peformance loss and can be a useful forensic tool (one can pinpoint when some performan

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Robert Watson wrote: The next thing that would be quite nice to measure is the rate of I/O transactions per second we can get to the disk using the disk device directly, with a minimal transaction size. I have a vague recollection that you have to be careful in Linux because their character de

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petri Helenius writes: My tests were using RAID10 and just striping. (RAID0 might be the right name for it) Same thing applies, and it depends on how the reqeust alignment/size and stripe alignment/size interacts. I&#

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Anderson writes: I'll be honest here, I don't care much if the speed difference between 4.X and 5.X is measureable, or whatever. What I find is a little telling of an issue somewhere, is that READS are slower than WRITES! This is

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Anderson writes: Don't mean to be terse here, but I'm talking about the same test done an two different RAID5 configurations, with different disks, and not just me - other users in this very thread see the same issue.. Uhm, if

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Petri Helenius
kama wrote: dev-null is not the issue... my own written testprogram that only read up data to a buffer in memory showed the same results as doing a dd to dev-null. And dd from zero to null does: 114541264896 bytes transferred in 27.716454 secs (4132608911 bytes/sec) Pete /Bjorn __

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Arne WXrner wrote: --- Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5_4 on dual-Xeons using 3ware controllers so it does not seem to be a driver issue [...] Why? I can remember, that some

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Petri Helenius
Eric Anderson wrote: I'm using fiber channel SATA, and I get 2x write as I do read, which doesn't make sense to me. What kind of write speeds do you get? My tiny brain tells me that reads should be faster than writes with a RAID5. I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and REL

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-19 Thread Petri Helenius
Eivind Hestnes wrote: It's correct that the card is plugged into a 32-bit 33 Mhz PCI slot. If i'm not wrong, 33 Mhz PCI slots has a peak transfer rate of 133 MByte/s. However, when pulling 180 mbit/s without the polling enabled the system is very little responsive due to the interrupt load. I'l