Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:29:15AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > 8 socket 10 core Xeon XE (I think that's what they're now called, > might be Xeon E7) with hyper threading are commonly available now (if > you've got in the high tens or 100s of thousand pounds) so it might be > a consideration

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:25:54PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > > > 1.1M isn't small. We recently declined to build btrfs into the kernel > > > because it increased the overall memory usage by a similar amount. > > > Also, we regularly

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:25:54PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > 1.1M isn't small. We recently declined to build btrfs into the kernel > > because it increased the overall memory usage by a similar amount. > > Also, we regularly see users and bug reports still in the 2G range. > > OOC

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Prarit Bhargava
On 07/15/2013 04:14 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> I've done some testing across various systems (both "large" and "small"). >> Increasing NR_CPUS seems to have a negligible effect. I see about a 1.1M >> increase in memory usage when switching

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I've done some testing across various systems (both "large" and "small"). > Increasing NR_CPUS seems to have a negligible effect. I see about a 1.1M > increase in memory usage when switching between 128 cpus and 5120 cpus. Since > most sy

Re: [PATCH] update s390x config

2013-07-15 Thread Dan Horák
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:30:54 +0200 Dan Horák wrote: > - disable various drivers not relevant for s390x > - enable kdump support this is a first round required for having a buildable kernel in rawhide Dan > --- > config-s390x | 39 --- > 1 f

[PATCH] update s390x config

2013-07-15 Thread Dan Horák
- disable various drivers not relevant for s390x - enable kdump support --- config-s390x | 39 --- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/config-s390x b/config-s390x index ab65656..e1e06a5 100644 --- a/config-s390x +++ b/config-s390x @@ -

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Prarit Bhargava
On 07/15/2013 01:33 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 07/15/2013 05:21 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> I've done some testing across various systems (both "large" and "small"). >> Increasing NR_CPUS seems to have a negligible effect. I see about a 1.1M >> increase in memory usage when switchin

Re: RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/15/2013 05:21 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: I've done some testing across various systems (both "large" and "small"). Increasing NR_CPUS seems to have a negligible effect. I see about a 1.1M increase in memory usage when switching between 128 cpus and 5120 cpus. Since most systems ship with

RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

2013-07-15 Thread Prarit Bhargava
I've done some testing across various systems (both "large" and "small"). Increasing NR_CPUS seems to have a negligible effect. I see about a 1.1M increase in memory usage when switching between 128 cpus and 5120 cpus. Since most systems ship with 4G or more these days, I cannot see an issue with

Re: what is the F19 way to disable ipv6?

2013-07-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:55:24PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.07.2013 16:44, schrieb Michal Schmidt: > > On 07/13/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> please take a look at this > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982740#c12 > >> > >> what do we do in the future to d

Re: what is the F19 way to disable ipv6?

2013-07-15 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 15.07.2013 16:44, schrieb Michal Schmidt: > > On 07/13/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> please take a look at this > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982740#c12 > >> > >> what do we do in the future to disable ipv

Re: what is the F19 way to disable ipv6?

2013-07-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/15/2013 02:44 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 07/13/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: please take a look at this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982740#c12 what do we do in the future to disable ipv6 entirely and why is "ipv6.disable=1" as kernel param at least with 3.10.0-1.fc

Re: what is the F19 way to disable ipv6?

2013-07-15 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 07/13/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: please take a look at this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982740#c12 what do we do in the future to disable ipv6 entirely and why is "ipv6.disable=1" as kernel param at least with 3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64 on F19? Back in 2011 the preferred