Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) It didn't make it because there was only sparse feedback after the

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.comwrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in time. This results in poor out of the box performance on 10gige and servers

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.comwrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com wrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com wrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period.

RE: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in time. This results in poor

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 8/19/13 9:19 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org mailto:an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) Would you do the honors? -Alfred On 7/8/13 7:37 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) It didn't make it because there was only sparse feedback after the call for testers. There were a couple of

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Pascal Drecker's Nachricht vom 16.07.2013 21:42 (localtime): ... IMHO, this is considered a new feature, and not a critical bug fix. re@ asked from the start of the code slush to avoid new features, and at this point, it is too late. It is not worth introducing

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzba...@omnilan.de wrote: Bezüglich Pascal Drecker's Nachricht vom 16.07.2013 21:42 (localtime): ... IMHO, this is considered a new feature, and not a critical bug fix. re@ asked from the start of the code slush to

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-16 Thread Johan Hendriks
Op maandag 15 juli 2013 schreef Alfred Perlstein (alf...@ixsystems.com) het volgende: On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On

Aw: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-16 Thread Pascal Drecker
Op maandag 15 juli 2013 schreef Alfred Perlstein (alf...@ixsystems.com) het volgende: On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38,

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light the MFC. -- Andre We're rolling it into

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. We're rolling it into the PCBSD rolling update as well. I'm thinking it makes sense to roll this into the 9.2 release to give us more scalability.

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give feedback.

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/11/13 12:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 11.07.2013 11:08, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes.

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, Peter what about i386? Ever since I touched this Peter has been worried about i386 and said we've broken the platform. I'm going to boot some vms but maybe we ought to get some testing from Peter on i386? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2013, at 5:47 AM, Andre Oppermann

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Please test on VMs. I've tested -HEAD in i386 virtualbox all the way down to 128mb with no panics. I'll test with 64mb soon. It's easy to do. i think the i386 PAE stuff on ${LARGE} memory systems is still broken. Peter? -adrian On 11 July 2013 07:59, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org To: Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk Cc: Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com; sta...@freebsd.org; r...@freebsd.org; nones...@longcount.org Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:47 PM Subject: Re: status of autotuning

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give feedback. http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/mfc-autotuning-20130708.diff This is

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give feedback.

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 08.07.2013 16:41, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org mailto:an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing?

status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I fear (maybe unnecessarily?) that we are about to ship yet another release that can't do basic 10gigE when sufficient memory exists. If you don't have time, then let me know and I'll see what

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I fear (maybe unnecessarily?) that we are about to ship yet

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I fear (maybe