[zfs-discuss] ON build on Blade 1500 ATA disk extremely slow

2006-07-25 Thread Rainer Orth
I've recently started doing ON nightly builds on zfs filesystems on the internal ATA disk of a Blade 1500 running snv_42. Unfortunately, the builds are extremely slow compared to building on an external IEEE 1394 disk attached to the same machine: ATA disk: Elapsed build time (DEBUG)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ON build on Blade 1500 ATA disk extremely slow

2006-07-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:45, Rainer Orth wrote: At other times, the kernel time can be even as high as 80%. Unfortunately, I've not been able to investigate how usec_delay is called since there's no fbt provider for that function (nor for the alternative entry point drv_usecwait found in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ON build on Blade 1500 ATA disk extremely slow

2006-07-25 Thread Rainer Orth
Bill, In the future, you can try: # lockstat -s 10 -I sleep 10 which aggregates on the full stack trace, not just the caller, during profiling interrupts. (-s 10 sets the stack depth; tweak up or down to taste). nice. Perhaps lockstat(1M) should be updated to include something like

Re: [zfs-discuss] ON build on Blade 1500 ATA disk extremely slow

2006-07-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:36, Rainer Orth wrote: Perhaps lockstat(1M) should be updated to include something like this in the EXAMPLES section. I filed 6452661 with this suggestion. Any word when this might be fixed? I can't comment in terms of time, but the engineer working on it has a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ON build on Blade 1500 ATA disk extremely slow

2006-07-25 Thread Rainer Orth
Bill, On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:36, Rainer Orth wrote: Perhaps lockstat(1M) should be updated to include something like this in the EXAMPLES section. I filed 6452661 with this suggestion. excellent, thanks. Any word when this might be fixed? I can't comment in terms of time, but