Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-08-01 Thread Andriy Gapon
I've looked at this issue some more and it appears to me that sched_pickcpu() is never called for CPU-bound threads that use up their slices completely and never do any voluntary switches. A result of this is that the threads stay on their initial CPU until re-balance mechanism kicks in. There

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
, at least when we talk about performance problems. There can be issues with the scheduler making sub-optimal scheduling decisions. -- The bug might be some case where the spin lock isn't being released when it should be, and that could result in Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Macklem
in Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds. Note that the server was under heavy I/O load when this panic occurred. A panic is a panic. spin lock 0x80cb52c0 (sched lock 1) held by 0xff0012c7f8c0 (tid 100317) too long panic: spin lock held too long I

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 31/07/2011 22:03 Rick Macklem said the following: Ok, so if the scheduler spin lock is being held too long, what could cause this, if it isn't a scheduler bug? I can't think of how NFS would affect this beyond causing a heavy I/O load, but if there is some way it does, I suppose I need to

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Macklem
Abdriy Gapon wrote: on 31/07/2011 22:03 Rick Macklem said the following: Ok, so if the scheduler spin lock is being held too long, what could cause this, if it isn't a scheduler bug? I can't think of how NFS would affect this beyond causing a heavy I/O load, but if there is some way

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/07/2011 00:44 Rick Macklem said the following: hrs sent me this panic. I'm wondering if it might be relevant to this? To 'this' what? A panic is a panic. spin lock 0x80cb52c0 (sched lock 1) held by 0xff0012c7f8c0 (tid 100317) too long panic: spin lock held too long I

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-30 Thread Rick Macklem
lock too long, that it might be another symptom of the same problem as when the scheduler seems to lock up for several seconds. -- The bug might be some case where the spin lock isn't being released when it should be, and that could result in Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/07/2011 11:05 Andriy Gapon said the following: I think that the best thing you can further provide (as objective evidence for the problem at hand) is ktr(4) traces for at least KTR_SCHED mask. Perhaps you even already have them from your previous sessions with Jeff. P.S. This is not

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:00:27PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/07/2011 11:05 Andriy Gapon said the following: I think that the best thing you can further provide (as objective evidence for the problem at hand) is ktr(4) traces for at least KTR_SCHED mask. Perhaps you even

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-25 Thread Rick Macklem
Steve Kargl wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:00:27PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/07/2011 11:05 Andriy Gapon said the following: I think that the best thing you can further provide (as objective evidence for the problem at hand) is ktr(4) traces for at least KTR_SCHED mask.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-25 Thread Attilio Rao
Do you have a corefile for this panic? Attilio 2011/7/25 Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca: Steve Kargl wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:00:27PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/07/2011 11:05 Andriy Gapon said the following: I think that the best thing you can further provide (as

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-17 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 13.07.2011 at 00:40:49 +0300, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: On (11/07/2011 16:36), m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ali Mashtizadeh mashtiza...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-17 Thread Artem Belevich
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Ulrich Spörlein u...@spoerlein.net wrote: ... Having a project adopted way of sharing work in progress will be a step forward. Yes, I'm aware of perforce, it's to hard to use and wasn't designed to share and test ideas. I think guthub can be a very good

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/07/2011 00:48 Arnaud Lacombe said the following: Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 11/07/2011 23:33 Arnaud Lacombe said the following: For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_ patch *before* it is checked in, as

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/07/2011 19:16 Steve Kargl said the following: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:07:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: But it's not clear which of the processes are slaves and which is master. It's also not clear why the master takes so much CPU (on par with the slaves) - from my reading of its

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:36 PM, m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ali Mashtizadeh mashtiza...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks who want to keep abreast of the current work in

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Matt
Sic... If you allow me the comparison, FreeBSD development is as open as are the US (and, to some extend, most western country) borders nowadays open to aliens, and believe me, this is not a compliment. - Arnaud ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/12/11 20:10, Matt wrote: Sic... If you allow me the comparison, FreeBSD development is as open as are the US (and, to some extend, most western country) borders nowadays open to aliens, and believe me, this is not a compliment. - Arnaud I like the comment, although I disagree. In

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-12 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (11/07/2011 16:36), m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ali Mashtizadeh mashtiza...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks who want to keep abreast of the current work in a particular

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/07/2011 22:08, Steve Kargl wrote: 4BSD kernel gives for N = Ncpu + 1. 34 processes: 6 running, 28 sleeping PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIMECPU COMMAND 1417 kargl 1 710 370M 294M RUN 0 1:30 79.39% sasmp 1416 kargl 1 710

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/07/2011 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: On 07/07/2011 22:08, Steve Kargl wrote: 4BSD kernel gives for N = Ncpu + 1. 34 processes: 6 running, 28 sleeping PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIMECPU COMMAND 1417 kargl 1 710 370M 294M RUN

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
That top output is averaged and slow to adjust. Using top as an indication as to what's really going on is likely not a good idea. 2c, Adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:07:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 11/07/2011 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: On 07/07/2011 22:08, Steve Kargl wrote: 4BSD kernel gives for N = Ncpu + 1. 34 processes: 6 running, 28 sleeping PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:42:02PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: That top output is averaged and slow to adjust. Using top as an indication as to what's really going on is likely not a good idea. Restoring top output here: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIMECPU

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11 July 2011 17:07, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Yeah, but what problem is demonstrated here? Are we confident that non-even workload is inherently bad? E.g.: 79.39 + .. + 77.59 5 * 80 = 400 100.00 + ... + 55.18 ~~ 402 which is more than theoretically possible :-) So it would

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: (OT, yes, but I'd like to take a stab at explaining why these things fall to the wayside..) On 7 July 2011 12:08, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: What would be the point to even start looking at an issue?

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_ patch *before* it is checked in, as a strong rule. gcc system is particularly interesting. But it is not likely to happen in FreeBSD where FreeBSD committers

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/07/2011 23:33 Arnaud Lacombe said the following: For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_ patch *before* it is checked in, as a strong rule. gcc system is particularly interesting. But it is not likely to happen in FreeBSD where FreeBSD committers are

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_ patch *before* it is checked in, as a strong rule. gcc system is

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 11/07/2011 23:33 Arnaud Lacombe said the following: For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_ patch *before* it is checked in, as a strong rule. gcc system is particularly interesting.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, [re-sent publicly, I did not Replied-to-all:)] On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: For the

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:50:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Ali Mashtizadeh
Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks who want to keep abreast of the current work in a particular subsystem or get involved into the development process more. At my company we use reviews and it seems to help the catch some bugs and

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread mdf
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ali Mashtizadeh mashtiza...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks who want to keep abreast of the current work in a particular subsystem or get involved into the development

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-11 Thread Rick Macklem
m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ali Mashtizadeh mashtiza...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe someone can setup something like reviewboard [1] for developers to use. This may also help folks who want to keep abreast of the current work in a particular subsystem or get

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/07/2011 06:11 Steve Kargl said the following: Unfortunately, I have neither the brain capacity and time nor the money to fix the issue. To solve OP's problem in the short, the simplest solution may be to switch to 4BSD. Let's face, ULE is not a silver bullet. I think that piling up

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 21:00 Steve Kargl said the following: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I launch n+1 MPI images on a system with n cpus/cores, then 2 (and sometimes 3) images are stuck on a cpu and those 2 (or 3) images ping-pong on that cpu. I

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread perryh
Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: Let's face, ULE is not a silver bullet. Or perhaps it is, but this particular problem is so heavily armored as to demand depleted uranium :) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/07/2011 19:05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account on one node in my cluster for

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/07/2011 20:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: I've seen exactly this problem with multi-threaded math libraries, as well. Using parallel GotoBLAS on FreeBSD gives terrible performance because the threads keep migrating between CPUs, causing frequent cache misses. On both schedulers?

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:27:53AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I launch n+1 MPI images on a system with n cpus/cores, then 2 (and sometimes 3) images are

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Vlad Galu
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:27:53AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/07/2011 18:14 Steve Kargl said the following: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:27:53AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I launch n+1 MPI images on a system with n

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:42:39PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/07/2011 18:14 Steve Kargl said the following: I'm using OpenMPI. These are N Ncpu processes not threads, I used 'thread' in a sense of a kernel thread. It shouldn't actually matter if it's a process or a thread in

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/07/11 09:04, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/07/2011 06:11 Steve Kargl said the following: Unfortunately, I have neither the brain capacity and time nor the money to fix the issue. To solve OP's problem in the short, the simplest solution may be to switch to 4BSD. Let's face, ULE is not a

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/07/11 09:27, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I launch n+1 MPI images on a system with n cpus/cores, then 2 (and sometimes 3) images are stuck on a cpu and those 2

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: This is quibbling. On heavy loads on networ, disk et cetera, isn't there always and also a CPU bound load? No. Properly written software blocks when waiting on network or disk I/O, and doesn't sit there spinning in a busy-wait consuming CPU

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
(OT, yes, but I'd like to take a stab at explaining why these things fall to the wayside..) On 7 July 2011 12:08, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: What would be the point to even start looking at an issue? You guys (by you, I mean official committers on public list) don't care When

Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to freeze

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: having performance issues Could you post /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf? Also, the output of uname -a on all machines would be nice. And since you don't use GENERIC, could you also tell us what difference your setup is from a GENERIC

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread arrowdodger
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world,

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 13:37 arrowdodger said the following: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread arrowdodger
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Just curious what your current value of sysctl kern.sched.preempt_thresh is. And if it's not 224 and if you haven't tried 224 yet, then could you please try it and see if there is any improvement? This assumes that you

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 15:35 arrowdodger said the following: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org mailto:a...@freebsd.org wrote: Just curious what your current value of sysctl kern.sched.preempt_thresh is. And if it's not 224 and if you haven't tried 224 yet, then

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 16:33 Alexander Best said the following: you might also want to try enabling options IPI_PREEMPTION. no idea, if this improves your situation, though. Just in case, this option has effect for 4BSD scheduler only. -- Andriy Gapon ___

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 16:33 Alexander Best said the following: you might also want to try enabling options IPI_PREEMPTION. no idea, if this improves your situation, though. Just in case, this option has effect for 4BSD scheduler only. thanks. i did not know

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/06/11 14:35, arrowdodger wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Andriy Gapona...@freebsd.org wrote: Just curious what your current value of sysctl kern.sched.preempt_thresh is. And if it's not 224 and if you haven't tried 224 yet, then could you please try it and see if there is any

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/07/2011 18:33 O. Hartmann said the following: On 07/06/11 14:35, arrowdodger wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Andriy Gapona...@freebsd.org wrote: Just curious what your current value of sysctl kern.sched.preempt_thresh is. And if it's not 224 and if you haven't tried 224 yet,

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Has anyone re-run those IO benchmarks? Something smells fishy there.. (with the benchmarking.) adrian 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. If you are using MPI in numerical codes, then

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. If you are

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:38:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account on one node in my cluster for jeffr to use. He was too busy to investigate at

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account on one

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 7/6/11, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? thanks, Adrian On 7 July 2011 05:00, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD works. -- Steve ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD works. I meant it as a more general observation. If something doesn't

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:39:00AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 23:49, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 7/6/11, Hartmann, O.ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote:

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/07/11 06:29, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl