Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread Dominik Hassler
Dan, After further testing I achieved 952 MBytes on a VM-2-VM connection...1 linux Ubuntu 12.04 vm to another CentOS 6.6 VM running on two different SmartOS host machines (through an extreme networks switch). if I got John correctly, he was running his second test on SmartOS hosts... We did

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Dominik Hassler hassl...@gmx.li wrote: Dan, After further testing I achieved 952 MBytes on a VM-2-VM connection...1 linux Ubuntu 12.04 vm to another CentOS 6.6 VM running on two different SmartOS host machines (through an extreme networks switch). if I

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kernel panic kernel heap corruption detected when creating zero eager disks

2015-03-24 Thread Dan McDonald
Here's a good place to start. It may need to be kicked to the illumos developer's list, but let's see what we can figure out first. 1.) What revision of OmniOS are you running? 2.) I notice a lot of STMF threads. COMSTAR (aka. STMF) is not the most stable piece of software in illumos,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:34 PM, John Barfield john.barfi...@bissinc.com wrote: They use this format: -device \ virtio-net-pci,mac=02:08:20:5f:85:0d,tx=timer,x-txtimer=20,x-txburst=12 8,vlan=0 \ \ -net \ vnic,name=${VNIC1},vlan=0,ifname=${VNIC1} \ I’m not sure if the txtimer

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kernel panic kernel heap corruption detected when creating zero eager disks

2015-03-24 Thread wuffers
On r151012 since Nov. And yes, the LUs are exposed via COMSTAR. If it helps to have some kmem_flags set, I can do that and try to reproduce it in the same way, and have the dump accessible. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: Here's a good place to start. It

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kernel panic kernel heap corruption detected when creating zero eager disks

2015-03-24 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:44 PM, wuffers m...@wuffers.net wrote: On r151012 since Nov. And yes, the LUs are exposed via COMSTAR. If it helps to have some kmem_flags set, I can do that and try to reproduce it in the same way, and have the dump accessible. kmem_flags=0xf + the actual coredump

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread John Barfield
Btw I did go ahead and test both virtio methods...I gave a vm the -device argument on one interface and the -net argument for another the results where -device = eth0 = 952mbps -net = eth1 = 199 mbps Thanks and have a great day, John Barfield On Mar 24, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Dan McDonald

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread John Barfield
Actually the numbers I sent for the SmartOS VM to VM test were on a switch with Jumbo frames (switch = 9216 mtu...SmartOS GZ MTU = 9000) (Extreme Networks Summit X440-48t release 15.2.3 patch12) Theyre also sitting in Q-in-Q tagged VLANs. Admin tagged nic sits in Vman (provider bridge) 10 the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread Phil Harman
John, Interesting work and data. Thanks for sharing. I've also been playing with Oracle Solaris 11.2 vs Linux vs FreeBSD on SmartOS vs ESX5.5 (free edition) both VM2VM and VM to remote host over a couple of Intel 10GBASE-T cards. As far as I can tell, there remains no virtio-net driver for

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] list of know-compatible motherboards?

2015-03-24 Thread Joseph Boren
Hi Andy, Thanks very much for the info, that's very helpful. Much appreciated. Best regards, Joe Boren Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:58:48 + (GMT) From: Andy omn...@citrus-it.net To: omnios-discuss omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] list of

[OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

2015-03-24 Thread John Barfield
Greetings OmnisOS community! This is my first time to ask a question on this list so here goes. I’ve deployed a zone on omnios and a KVM virtual machine within the zone. I’ve been doing some initial virtio network interface performance testing with iperf and the following are my results

[OmniOS-discuss] kernel panic kernel heap corruption detected when creating zero eager disks

2015-03-24 Thread wuffers
I recently created a pair of 25TB LUs for use in my VMware environment to test out Veeam (and using that space for my repo - yes, yes, backups should not reside in the same storage, but they will be exported to tape). So while trying to create a 16TB drive in the vSphere fat client, I got the