Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: This is very unlikely, because I have 5 another video storage servers of the same hardware and software configurations and they feel good. Clearly something is different about them, though. If you can characterize exactly what that is then it will help. I can't see any

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: What else can i try? Still waiting on the vmstat -z output. Also can you please obtain vmstat -i, netstat -m and 10 seconds of representative vmstat -w output when the problem is and is not occurring? Kris ___

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Oct-16 06:54:11 -0500, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will give you a good understanding of what the issue is. Essentially, your disk is hammered making copies of all the cylinder groups, skipping those that are 'busy', and coming back to them later. On a 200Gb disk, you could

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Anderson
Doug Clements wrote: Hi, I have an new NFS server that is processing roughly 15mbit of NFS traffic that we recently upgraded from an older 4.10 box. It has a 3-ware raid card, and is serving NFS out a single em nic to LAN clients. The machine works great just serving NFS, but when I try to

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Anderson
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:00:03PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Oct-16 06:54:11 -0500, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will give you a good understanding of what the issue is. Essentially, your disk is hammered making copies of all the cylinder groups,

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: This web service is similiar to YouTube. This server is video store. I have around 200G of *.flv (flash video) files on the

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On tir, okt 16, 2007 at 04:10:37 +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote: Hi, is anybody working on the `Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project' from the ideas page? I've been kicking the idea around in my head, but I'm probably newer to everything involved than you are, so feel free to pick it up. If

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Fabio Checconi
From: Karsten Behrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 04:10:37PM +0200 Hi, is anybody working on the `Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project' from the ideas page? I've been kicking the idea around in my head, but I'm probably newer to everything involved than you are, so feel

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Fabio Checconi
From: Ulf Lilleengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 01:07:15PM +0200 On tir, okt 16, 2007 at 04:10:37 +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote: Over to a more general view of it's architecture: When I looked at this project for the first time, I was under the impression that this would be

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:00:03PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Oct-16 06:54:11 -0500, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will give you a good understanding of what the issue is. Essentially, your disk is hammered making copies of all the cylinder groups, skipping those that are

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On ons, okt 17, 2007 at 02:19:07 +0200, Fabio Checconi wrote: From: Ulf Lilleengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 01:07:15PM +0200 On tir, okt 16, 2007 at 04:10:37 +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote: Over to a more general view of it's architecture: When I looked at this

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 05:41:18 am Ed Schouten wrote: Hello, I asked the following question on questions@, but as requested, I'll forward this question to this list, because of its technical nature. - Forwarded message from Ed Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 15 Oct

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:09:35PM +0200, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: ... discussion on Hybrid vs. GEOM as a suitable location for ... pluggable disk schedulers However, I'd hate to see the Hybrid effort go to waste :) I was hoping some of the authors of the project would reply with their thoughts,

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Fabio Checconi
From: Ulf Lilleengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 03:09:35PM +0200 On ons, okt 17, 2007 at 02:19:07 +0200, Fabio Checconi wrote: Maybe I've not enough experience/knowledge of the driver subsystem, [...] If you look at it, Hybrid is just a generalization of the existing bioq_*

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-17 Thread Doug Clements
Can you also send the output of ps -auxl? Also - do you notice this performance drop when running something like one of the network performance tools? I'd like to isolate the disk activity from the network activity for a clean test.. I tested this with iperf, and while I did see some nfs

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: And few hours ago I received feed back from Andrzej Tobola, he has the same problem on FreeBSD 7 with Promise ATA software mirror: Well, he didnt provide any evidence yet that it is the same problem, so let's not become confused by feelings :) I think he is telling

Re: Useful tools missing from /rescue

2007-10-17 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:38:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:01:39AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:23:44PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: I also don't see the need for pgrep - I think needing that says your system is running multiuser pretty

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-17 Thread Bruno Tavares
On 10/17/07, Fabio Checconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ulf Lilleengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 03:09:35PM +0200 On ons, okt 17, 2007 at 02:19:07 +0200, Fabio Checconi wrote: Maybe I've not enough experience/knowledge of the driver subsystem, [...] If you look at