Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-07-31 Thread mgrommet
I'm really stumped here. I have two seperate machines... one very high end, dual CPU machine, raid 5, etc, the other is a piece of crud (standard low end workstation). Both machines are running Redhat Enterprise Server 3... the SMP machine is running the redhat 2.4.21-4.ELsmp stock kernel... the

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-07-31 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have mumbled on Samstag, 31. Juli 2004 3:20 Uhr -0400 regarding Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance: I have two seperate machines... one very high end, dual CPU machine, raid 5, etc, the other is a piece of

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-07-31 Thread mgrommet
> More recent kernel versions have improved memory management and I > wouldn't have expected RH ES 3.0 to be affected. What does top tell > you? Does the load get high? How much CPU time do the kernel tasks use > up? > -- Top shows zero load on the machine (its just sitting there running cyrus

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-07-31 Thread Jim Levie
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 02:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm really stumped here. > > I have two seperate machines... one very high end, dual CPU machine, raid > 5, etc, the other is a piece of crud (standard low end workstation). > > Both machines are running Redhat Enterprise Server 3... > the S

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-07-31 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this information help? What other info can I provide? Yep. Can you please run 'vmstat 1' while the test is running, and redirect the output to a file? vmstat can help spot all sorts of issues. Also, what filesystem and disks are you u

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-01 Thread Simon Matter
> I'm really stumped here. > > I have two seperate machines... one very high end, dual CPU machine, raid > 5, etc, the other is a piece of crud (standard low end workstation). > > Both machines are running Redhat Enterprise Server 3... > the SMP machine is running the redhat 2.4.21-4.ELsmp stock ke

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-01 Thread mgrommet
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Does this information help? What other info can I provide? > > Yep. Can you please run 'vmstat 1' while the test is running, and > redirect the output to a file? vmstat can help spot all sorts of issues. > > Also, what filesystem and dis

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-02 Thread mgrommet
Today, we upgraded the machine to the latest redhat ES 3.0 with kernel Linux 2.4.21-15.ELsmp -- no luck... imtest -z still took 19 seconds to run... compared to 2-3 seconds on the cheapie machine. I generated the traces requested, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking for... Mostly because I d

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-03 Thread Simon Matter
> Today, we upgraded the machine to the latest redhat ES 3.0 > with kernel Linux 2.4.21-15.ELsmp -- no luck... imtest -z still took 19 > seconds to run... compared to 2-3 seconds on the cheapie machine. Hm, you said SCSI Raid - that can mean alot. Could you run a good old bonnie on both boxes and

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-03 Thread mgrommet
Here are the bonnie results... This is the "beefy" machine ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU

Re: Please help with Simon's Cyrus RPMS (2.2.8), SMP, and really slow performance

2004-08-03 Thread Simon Matter
> Here are the bonnie results... Hm, this is bonnie 1.x, which is okay, but it has 2Gb filesize limit. Your big box has 2Gb of Ram, right? How big was your file size with bonnie? To make this test work, boot both boxes with mem=128M as kernel parameter so it will only use 128M of the memory. Then,