Re: Harddisk i.e. ZFS Performance

2009-11-29 Thread Ray Kinsella
Can I recommend using bonnie++ On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Nikolay Denev wrote: > On 28 Nov, 2009, at 04:25 , Gerd Truschinski wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > is there anywhere a website that show me all the performancetools to > measure the performance of ZFS or a single Harddisk? > > In Linux

Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-03 Thread Ray Kinsella
Hi all, cpuset is the command to set a cpu affinity, there are details @ http://bramp.net/blog/post vmstat -z is the command you need to determine whether there is contention for mbufs. although the cpu usage does not suggest the system is memory constrained. Regards Ray Kinsella On Mon, Aug

Re: Test on 10GBE Intel based network card

2009-08-03 Thread Ray Kinsella
vmstat switched on "vmstat 3" and send us the output. I expect we are going to see alot of interrupts. Regards Ray Kinsella On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ray Kinsella wrote: > Hi Fabrizio, > > I am an Intel Network Software Engineer, I test/improve the performance of >

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 taskq em performance

2009-04-27 Thread Ray Kinsella
Joseph, I would recommend that you start with PMCStat and figure where the bottleneck is, Given that you have a two threads and your CPU is at 100%, my a apriori guess would be a contention for a spinlock, so I might also try to use LOCK_PROFILING to handle on this. Regards Ray Kinsella On

Re: Thread priority in FreeBSD

2008-12-05 Thread Ray Kinsella
Apologies, I neglected to clarify, I am of course talking about Kernel Threads. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ray Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem trying to influence thread scheduling in FreeBSD. > There are three threads I am interest

Thread priority in FreeBSD

2008-12-05 Thread Ray Kinsella
data from the circular buffer Any idea's how to encourage the scheduler to adopt this behaviour ? Thanks Ray Kinsella * * ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubs

Re: [PATCH] pmcannotate tool

2008-11-24 Thread Ray Kinsella
No, not at all. I am using 6.2 and 7.0 at the moment, I will build another disk with FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT. Thanks Ray Kinsella On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Attilio Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/23, Ray Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I know I am go

Re: [PATCH] pmcannotate tool

2008-11-23 Thread Ray Kinsella
I know I am going to really show my FreeBSD ignorance here, but this is a patch of FreeBSD 8.0 Current isn't it ? Thanks Ray Kinsella On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Attilio Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pmcannotate is a tool that prints out sources of a tool (in C or &g

Interrupt handling in 6.2

2008-10-31 Thread Ray Kinsella
ne had any luck profiling ko's in 6.2. Thanks Ray Kinsella ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread ray
d to see what sort of results you get. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. http://www.redshift.com/~ray/mysql_bench These are my personal benchmarks I use here, but I added a file to try to walk you through stuff and in case you want to share them with anyone else, etc. If y

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread ray
me benchmarks from a guy using a Dell with a raid and was surprised to see how slow they were compared to our other hardware. I didn't run them myself, but the guy is on the list here some place. I can send you a copy of the spreadsheet if you want to look it over. Ray __

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

2005-11-02 Thread ray
if you like. All you need is to have PHP loaded on the machine and then create a single MySQL database. Let me know if you are game. Ray ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread ray
ut at the end of the day, I want to know what my database server is able to achieve in the real world when it comes to stuff like inserts, updates, searches. I'll send another e-mail in a minute. Gotta finish lunch :) Ray ___ freebsd-performance@freebs

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread ray
o a single SATA drive, the server was quite a bit faster when setup with the raid card and 4 10K Raptor drives. I have the benchmarks here if anyone is interested. I also just ordered 4 more 10K drives and I'm going to re-run everything in order to

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread ray
t's a real nice setup and never had any problems. Ray ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 64bit CPUs

2005-05-01 Thread ray
my benchmarking with apache shows that it does seem to run faster on 32 bit Xeon than 64 bit Opterons. PHP ran a bit faster on the Opterons, but nothing major. Ray At 12:48 PM 5/1/2005 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: | Mike Tancsa wrote: | > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but w

Re: performance modifications

2005-04-09 Thread ray
Thanks Sunil, I'm running a completely stripped down apache and PHP config here. As you say, it makes a huge difference if you don't rely on those modules. Thanks! Ray At 10:10 AM 4/9/2005 +, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: | Hi, | There a a few apache config changes which really b