RE: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-28 Thread Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
From: Atte Peltomaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If it's long enough to pause the console noticibly, the next thing to try is breaking to the debugger -- which might require an NMI card -- to see what code it's stuck in during the pause. It's noticeable - if you type under

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-28 Thread D. Rock
Dan Nelson schrieb: In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: Kenneth Culver wrote: Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in: options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity options INVARIANT_SUPPORT

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-27 Thread Atte Peltomaki
If it's long enough to pause the console noticibly, the next thing to try is breaking to the debugger -- which might require an NMI card -- to see what code it's stuck in during the pause. It's noticeable - if you type under heavy load in console, you experience similar to ssh lag - you

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Atte Peltomaki
If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters as entropy sources, does the problem fix itself? If you're thinking it's /dev/random blocking on him, 5.0's output never blocks. Its output is a PRNG periodically seeded from random data, including interrupt timings

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Atte Peltomaki wrote: Description: Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Lawson wrote: Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling software and copying files over NFS while listening to

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling software and

Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Atte Peltomaki
I've used 5.0-RELEASE for few days now, and I've been experiencing some serious performance problems. I haven't had the time to examine it more closely, and frankly, I have no clue where to start looking for. Perhaps someone knows what this is all about. Description: Every time machine is under

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in:

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Kenneth Culver wrote: I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave

malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Dan Nelson wrote: # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf - HR H and should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. R is on by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. That's not what the malloc(3) man page

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:46PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf - HR H and should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. R is on by default in 5.0 anyway,

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread John David Duncan
H and should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. Setting malloc.conf to aj makes it work like it does in 4.*. Here are some benchmarks to illustrate that, using ubench (from /usr/ports/benchmarks) on a dual

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Atte Peltomaki wrote: Description: Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling software and copying files over NFS while

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Terry Lambert said: Atte Peltomaki wrote: Description: Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters as entropy sources, does the problem fix itself? If you're thinking it's /dev/random blocking on him, 5.0's output never blocks. Its output is a PRNG periodically seeded from random data, including

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
Just a me too. I have a procmail filter that uses spamassissin to filter all my incomming mail (downloaded with fetchmail). I have noticed that if I get a lot of messages at once, interactive response degrades tremendously with a lot of perl processes stuck in either swread or pfault state. The

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: Kenneth Culver wrote: Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in: options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: Dan Nelson wrote: # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf - HR H and should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. R is on by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and