Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > > I didn't refuse. I just chose to take help > from > > Ben, because Ben took the time to reproduce > the > > problem and to provide useful settings that > made > > sens

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- "Vladimir B. Savkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:08:43PM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > > If your test is still set up, try compiling > > something large while doing the test. The > drops > > go through the roof in my

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-26 Thread Danial Thom
--- Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > > > --- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-26 Thread Danial Thom
--- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:06:51AM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > >... > > I don't think I'm obligated to answer every > > single person who pipes into a thread. People > who > > say "show me you

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-26 Thread Danial Thom
--- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:34:14AM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > --- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > That's not always true. > > > > > > Imagine

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-26 Thread Danial Thom
--- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:41:11AM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > >... > > > > The issue I have with that logic is that you > seem > > to use "kernel" in a general sense without > rega

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-25 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > --- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >>Danial Thom wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I think the concensus is that 2.6 has made &g

Re: Petition for gas grices

2005-08-25 Thread Danial Thom
--- Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:44 -0400, Lee Revell > wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:20 -0400, Michael > Krufky wrote: > > > Todd Bailey wrote: > > > > > > > I'm all for this but I think there is > little uncle George can do. > > > > > > Was it necess

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-25 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > > The tests I reported where on UP systems. > Perhaps > > the default settings are better for this in > 2.4, > > since that is what I used, and you used your > > hacks for both. >

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-25 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > --- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >>Danial Thom wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I think the concensus is that 2.6 has made &g

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > > I think the concensus is that 2.6 has made > trade > > offs that lower raw throughput, which is what > a > > networking device needs. So as a router or > > network appliance, 2.6 seem

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/24/05, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > I think part of the problem is the >

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>If you have preemtion enabled you could > > > disable > > > >>it. Low latency comes > > > >>at the cost of decreased throughput - > can't > > > >>have both. Also try using > > > >>a HZ of 100 if you are currently using > 1000, > > > >>that shoul

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > None of this is helpful, but since no one has > > been able to tell me how to tune it to > provide > > absolute priority to the network stack I'll > > assume it can't be don

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:10 -0700, Danial Thom > wrote: > > > > None of this is helpful, but since no one has > > been able to tell me how to tune it to > provide > > absolute priority to the network

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > I think part of the problem is the continued > > misuse of the word "latency". Latency, in > > language terms, means "unexplained delay". > Its > > wrong here becaus

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-23 Thread Danial Thom
--- Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:10 -0700, Danial Thom > wrote: > > > > > > >Ok, well you'll have to explain this one: > > > > > > > >"Low latency c

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-23 Thread Danial Thom
--- Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > >--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>On 8/21/05, Danial Thom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>wrote: > >>

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-22 Thread Danial Thom
the lost > is connected to the number to interrupts you > have to manage. > > The point is that a desktop where the users > simple need a smooth sysstem > to be userd interactivelly, but not real CPU > power, and a server where you > need hourse power are different to

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
--- Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > I just started fiddling with 2.6.12, and > there > > seems to be a big drop-off in performance > from > > 2.4.x in terms of networking on a > uniprocessor > > system. Just bridgi

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/21/05, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I just started fiddling with 2.6.12, and > there > > seems to be a big drop-off in performance > from > > 2.4.x in terms of networking on a > u

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/21/05, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I just started fiddling with 2.6.12, and > there > > seems to be a big drop-off in performance > from > > 2.4.x in terms of networking on a > u

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/21/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 8/21/05, Danial Thom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Ok, well you'll have to explain this one: > > > > &

2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
I just started fiddling with 2.6.12, and there seems to be a big drop-off in performance from 2.4.x in terms of networking on a uniprocessor system. Just bridging packets through the machine, 2.6.12 starts dropping packets at ~100Kpps, whereas 2.4.x doesn't start dropping until over 350Kpps on the