General Performance Review Topics [re: Xeon Running FBSD]

2017-10-13 Thread grarpamp
> To get more consistent results, you may actually want to disable turboboost > in the bios, and rerun the benchmarks on ALL of the operating systems. > Wow, the difference between the FreeBSDs and Linux performance is amazing and > for those looking at the first time on such benchmarks not know

Re: Power9 Inexpensive Development Testbed

2017-10-13 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:59 PM, grarpamp wrote: > With Power8 aging and Power9 shipping... Consider picking up a > couple of these to support the development of getting FreeBSD going > on the bare iron without hypervisor. FreeBSD being a member already, > good support for this effo

Xeon Gold 6138's Running FBSD 11.1 and TrueOS Stable [GCC 5.4]

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=25148 While we have tested a number of Linux distributions on Intel's new Xeon Scalable platform, here are some initial BSD tests using two Xeon Gold 6138 processors with the Tyan GT24E-B7106 1U barebones server. FreeBSD 11.1 and the FreeBSD-derivative desktop/w

Re: Fwd: [tor-dev] gettimeofday() Syscall Issues

2015-01-02 Thread grarpamp
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:09:34AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: >> Some recent FreeBSD related questions in this app area. >> > What is the question ? > > As a background, I can repeat that FreeBSD implements sys

Fwd: [tor-dev] gettimeofday() Syscall Issues

2015-01-02 Thread grarpamp
Some recent FreeBSD related questions in this app area. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yawning Angel Date: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [tor-dev] gettimeofday() Syscall Issues To: tor-...@lists.torproject.org On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:42:42 -0500 Libertas wrote: > The

Re: HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit?

2014-12-18 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > You really need your own evaluation methods for your own real world workload. Of course. Yet many users here might like to compare common things: o make buildworld times o iozone if disks are not limiting factor o openssl speed as below o et

Re: HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit?

2014-12-14 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > Yes, Haswell has an additional store addr but still only one store data unit. > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-review,3521.html > > But I guess they'd argue that they meant to saturate memory > channels with all av

Re: HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit?

2014-12-09 Thread grarpamp
> Ohartmann: > From my experience, mostly compiling FreeBSD sources from scratch > ... > a dual core, 4-thread CPU > at 3.3 GHz takes ~ 60 minutes to build world, the same as a 4-core > castrated i3 with disabled SMT. Switching off SMT on the dual core > ... > Using SMT in some FPU heavy caclulatio

HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit?

2014-12-08 Thread grarpamp
HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit? What bits of FreeBSD are aware and can take proper advantage of Intel HTT, such as its thread/process schedulers (sched-BSD/ULE/...), etc? What system/app loads are, or are not, likely to benefit with today's HyperThreading CPU's? Kernel (ZFS/crypt

TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-17 Thread grarpamp
Just documenting regarding interactive performance things. This one's from Linux. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1 ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Tracking performance areas over time

2010-11-04 Thread 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 is kept the same and it compiles across all FreeBSD release/releng since 2.x, automating

Sequential disk IO saturates system

2010-09-14 Thread grarpamp
We have [re]nice to deal with user processes. Is there no way to effectively rate limit the disk pipe? As it is now, this machine can't do any userland work because it's completely buried by the simple degenerate case of: cp /fs_a/.../giga_size_files /fs_b/... Geli and zfs are in use, yet that d

Intel 10Gb

2010-05-07 Thread grarpamp
Just wondering in general these days how close FreeBSD is to full 10Gb rates at various packet sizes from minimum ethernet frame to max jumbo 65k++. For things like BPF, ipfw/pf, routing, switching, etc. http://www.ntop.org/blog/?p=86 ___ freebsd-performa

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls [solved]

2009-09-02 Thread grarpamp
I didn't actually solve it or do anything. I just upgraded to RELENG_8. Now it's behaving more like FreeBSD should. I can do sequential reads/writes and still use kbd/mouse/X11/buildworld and so on. Yes, the cpu is still completely underwater, and allowing for that, it seems interactivity is nearl

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-12 Thread grarpamp
> cards aren't going to help with zfs. No, but for geli hifn(4) crypto(4)/(9), geli(8) might work if aes-cbc is indeed the mode geli uses. See the source I guess. > Does anyone make a disk controller with crypto built in? Yes. There are trays and cable dongles and things that do aes/des. And som

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-10 Thread grarpamp
> nice only affects userland Well, you can set {id,rt}prio and nice on kernel processes. Then look at top to see the nice column change. Have no idea what effect it has nor what the non '-' chars on those procs in that column mean. > Do you *need* geli+zfs? Encryption = required. ZFS... well I l

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-08 Thread grarpamp
> Are you *sure* that the cpu is your bottleneck? Well, I've got a gig free in /usr/local which is ufs2+softdeps. So I just dd if=dev/zero bs=1m of=zero there. Disk was 100% busy, cpu was 10-15% system, 10% user, about 16MiB/sec. Of course since that is my system spindle, and it was busied out by

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-07 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I'm running RELENG_7 on an older single P4. It has a lot of disk on it that does mainly sequential read/write of gigs of data. The data disks are hanging off a dumb ata133 pdc20269 card, they use geli aes 128 and zfs sha256, single spindles. Free ram, no swap, free disk, no net, etc. In short,