Re: zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 09:13, DJ wrote: > > After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. > > First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network > performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire > when not using iscsi [say iper

zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

2010-11-08 Thread DJ
After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire when not using iscsi [say iperf] or ftp. Both systems are 8.1-RELENG. The

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/19/10 10:09, krad wrote: 2010/1/18 Morgan Wesstr�m O. Hartmann wrote: I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores (Dell

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/18/10 21:34, � wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores (Dell Poweredge III). Symptome: All

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Morgan Wesström
Emil Mikulic wrote: > (off-list) > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:32:34PM +0100, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote: >> Emil Mikulic wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote: Thanks for bringing up this topic here. I have drives showing up close to 80 load cycle counts

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread krad
2010/1/18 Morgan Wesström > O. Hartmann wrote: > > I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. > > All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two > > others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores > > (Dell Poweredge III).

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesström wrote: > The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power > disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking > havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls and > iowait through the roof during the 25-30 seco

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Morgan Wesström
O. Hartmann wrote: > I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. > All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two > others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores > (Dell Poweredge III). > > Symptome: All boxes have ZFS and

immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread O. Hartmann
I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores (Dell Poweredge III). Symptome: All boxes have ZFS and UFS2 filesystems. Since two

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-12-22 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm seeing exactly the same issues on my 5 disk raidz pool again. In brief: I can only write to the filesystem at ~20MB/s, and read from it at ~25MB/s. Normally, I'd expect to be able to write at nearer 50-100 MB/s, and read at ~200MB/s. The values from "zpool iostat -v" are also strange

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-22 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on a system with 2GB RAM. I've a zfs pool > using raidz1 over five 2Tb SATA drives connected via a port multiplier > and a RR2314 card. > > I can write to a filesystem on this pool at approx 20MB/s: > > # dd if=/dev/urandom of=$FS/testdump bs=

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Key
Carl Chave wrote: > relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current > bandwidth usage by specifying > an interval. Thanks Carl, I was aware of the option, the posted stats were from: # zpool iostat -v 10 with the 10s period wholly within the ~40s transfer time. King regards,

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Carl Chave
Chris, Don't know, but, I will paste in a portion of the ZFS admin guide from SUN: Because these statistics are cumulative since boot, bandwidth might appear low if the pool is relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current bandwidth usage by specifying an interval. For example:

ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on a system with 2GB RAM. I've a zfs pool using raidz1 over five 2Tb SATA drives connected via a port multiplier and a RR2314 card. I can write to a filesystem on this pool at approx 20MB/s: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=$FS/testdump bs=1m count=1k 1024+0 records

RE: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Natham > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 10:04 AM > To: Mel > Cc: Lyle Miller; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Performance Issues on 6.3 > > I made the test toda

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-03-01 Thread Natham
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 18:56:15 Natham wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Lyle Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Natham wrote: > > > > Hi i have a server with four disk atached, 2 raid 0 and 2 raid 1. Im

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-27 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 18:56:15 Natham wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Lyle Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Natham wrote: > > > Hi i have a server with four disk atached, 2 raid 0 and 2 raid 1. Im > > > getting a low performance on file trasfers over network to windows >

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-27 Thread Natham
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Lyle Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Natham wrote: > > Hi i have a server with four disk atached, 2 raid 0 and 2 raid 1. Im > > getting a low performance on file trasfers over network to windows > > clients i get only about 30MB/s. Looking at gstat i got b

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-27 Thread Lyle Miller
Natham wrote: Hi i have a server with four disk atached, 2 raid 0 and 2 raid 1. Im getting a low performance on file trasfers over network to windows clients i get only about 30MB/s. Looking at gstat i got both disk are trasfering 15000kBps each over a gigabit connection(client and server). How

RE: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Natham > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:32 PM > To: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Performance Issues on 6.3 > > > O

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Bogdan Ćulibrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Natham wrote: | I dont. i check the performance for network trasfer only thats what i | mean (trought samba). When im rebuilding the RAID 1 i got about 40mb/s | from each disk. | I think its a network issue or samba, but i dont know where to look at.

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Natham
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Natham wrote: > > > Both RAID got low performance, where can i check to fis that problem? > > How did you determine that it is your RAID that is performing poorly, > and not your network card or your samba or something o

Re: Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Natham wrote: Both RAID got low performance, where can i check to fis that problem? How did you determine that it is your RAID that is performing poorly, and not your network card or your samba or something on the other system? Kris ___ freebsd-qu

Performance Issues on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Natham
Hi i have a server with four disk atached, 2 raid 0 and 2 raid 1. Im getting a low performance on file trasfers over network to windows clients i get only about 30MB/s. Looking at gstat i got both disk are trasfering 15000kBps each over a gigabit connection(client and server). How can improve per

Re: Having bad performance issues

2007-07-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm having some bad perf issues on a 6.2 server running PostgreSQL > 8.2.4. I really don't know too much about this stuff...but it doesn't > seem to be related to memory or CPU as they're barely being touched. > Which leaves IO. Here's some vmstat

Re: Having bad performance issues

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Pat I'd start by looking at tuning Postgresqllook at the queries that are taking the longest and optimise those. there's stuff alover the web about tuning PGsql On 7/25/07, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having some bad perf issues on a 6.2 server running PostgreSQL 8.2.4. I re

Having bad performance issues

2007-07-25 Thread Pat Maddox
I'm having some bad perf issues on a 6.2 server running PostgreSQL 8.2.4. I really don't know too much about this stuff...but it doesn't seem to be related to memory or CPU as they're barely being touched. Which leaves IO. Here's some vmstat output. My only guess is that the numbers under the faul

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:03 AM 2/6/2007, Chris wrote: On 06/02/07, Justin Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. One point where we have different results is with ADAPTIVE_GIANT, I actually noticed a drop of about 50kpps thruput

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-06 Thread Chris
On 06/02/07, Justin Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. One point where we have different results is with ADAPTIVE_GIANT, I actually noticed a drop of about 50kpps thruput when disabling it. Hmm I am surp

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:53 PM 2/5/2007, Justin Robertson wrote: I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. Are you sure you had kern.polling.idle_poll=1 enabled ? It makes a big difference in RELENG_6 with it on or off in my tests. ---Mike ___

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. One point where we have different results is with ADAPTIVE_GIANT, I actually noticed a drop of about 50kpps thruput when disabling it. Mike Tancsa wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:03:41 -0800, in sentex.li

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:03:41 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > > I suppose my concerns are two-fold. Why is 6.x collapsing under traffic >that 4.11 could easily block and run merrily along with, and is there a >queueing mechanism in place that doesn't tie up the box so much o

6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
So, this may be the wrong list to post to, but it seemed the most appropriate. If someone could suggest a better location to move/cross post to let me know. I've been running some tests with using FreeBSD to filter and rate limit traffic. My first thoughts were to goto the latest stable re

2d performance issues fixed

2006-04-01 Thread Josh Paetzel
Some time ago I posted about having 2d performance issues with Xorg, nvidia driver, and linux-opera. I haven't had much time lately to figure out what is going on but I finally found a solution/workaround yesterday. The fix was to take device agp out of the kernel and use Option "

Re: VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

2005-09-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 13, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Danial Thom wrote: its not clear why Chuck keeps answering since he clearly doesn't understand the question. I'm willing to try and help people, even if the questions being asked aren't entirely clear. If you want to believe this reflects a lack of understandi

Re: VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

2005-09-13 Thread Danial Thom
--- Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Sten Daniel > Sørsdal wrote: > >> The essence of multihoming is having two (or > more) distinct NICs. > > > > so if i had two vlan's with an ip on both. > wouldnt this qualify it as > > multihoming? would i somehow no

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kane
Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:38:41 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:38:00 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Kane wrote: I do notice that when doing some things like using unrar to extract a file or loadin

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-29 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:38:41 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ariff Abdullah wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:38:00 -0500 > > Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Mark Kane wrote: > >>I do notice that when doing some things like using unrar to extract > >>a file or loading a

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kane
Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:38:00 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Kane wrote: I do notice that when doing some things like using unrar to extract a file or loading a video into video encoding software I do get some of the same little crackles and static in the

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:38:00 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Kane wrote: > > Ariff Abdullah wrote: > > > >> These are my suggestions: > >> 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. > >> 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on > >me, >but I can't

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Kane
Mark Kane wrote: Ariff Abdullah wrote: These are my suggestions: 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on me, but I can't guarantee (especially combining with PREEMPTION). It doesn't hurt to give it a try. 3) Apply the

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Kane
Ariff Abdullah wrote: These are my suggestions: 1) enable 'options PREEMPTION'. This is a MUST. 2) use SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD. ULE is pretty stable on me, but I can't guarantee (especially combining with PREEMPTION). It doesn't hurt to give it a try. 3) Apply these patches: http:/

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:17:05 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ariff Abdullah wrote: > > I've been following this thread, yet I still don't know what is > > your soundcard. To tell you the truth, much of these issues relies > > heavily on your spesific sound driver, whether it has been f

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:14:35PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > > > >>Roland Smith wrote: > >> > >>>Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. > >> > >>Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Mark Kane
Ariff Abdullah wrote: I've been following this thread, yet I still don't know what is your soundcard. To tell you the truth, much of these issues relies heavily on your spesific sound driver, whether it has been freed from Giant or not. At least: Well the thing that makes me think it's not enti

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:14:35 -0500 Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > > > >>Roland Smith wrote: > >> > >>>Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using > >SCHED_4BSD. > > >>Hmm, I'm using just a

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:36:04PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > This much improvement almost makes me want to just upgrade this amd64 > box to -STABLE and start using it now. I just want to be sure it's > stable enough for my use. My amd64 workstation has been running -STABLE since 5.3 without prob

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Mark Kane
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks d

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. > > Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound > driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks default in GENERIC

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Mark Kane
Chris wrote: Try these in kernel OPTIONS DIRECTIO OPTIONS NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES and commenting optionsADAPTIVE_GIANT and disable apic. Tell me if that imporves or makes worse. Well I did the kernel part, but wasn't sure how you wanted me to disable APIC. I looked in the BIOS but don't

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-26 Thread Chris
On 26/08/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:44:59PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >>Okay, I may try that later then. STABLE is just about done on that > >>Athlon XP 2000+ machine. > > > > > > Fingers crossed :-) > > Well Hmmm I've got -STA

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:44:59PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Okay, I may try that later then. STABLE is just about done on that Athlon XP 2000+ machine. Fingers crossed :-) Well Hmmm I've got -STABLE running on the 5.4-RELEASE i386 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ machine with 256

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: Have you checked (with 'atacontrol mode ') that both drives are indeed using DMA? amd64# atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA133 [200GB w/ FreeBSD] Slave = BIOSPIO amd64# atacontrol mode 1 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = PIO4 [Sony DRU500A DVD+RW] amd64# atacontrol mode 4 Master = UDM

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting > >for disk reads/writes. > > The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB > Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do w

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Laurence Sanford wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting for disk reads/writes. The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do wi

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting for disk reads/writes. The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the bad controller on

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: Wow, that would be really nice. I notice whenever I compress something like a backup of my Thunderbird Inbox files (several hundred megs) in bzip2 format it goes nowhere near 100% or even 90% CPU usage. The proble

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Wow, that would be really nice. I notice whenever I compress something > like a backup of my Thunderbird Inbox files (several hundred megs) in > bzip2 format it goes nowhere near 100% or even 90% CPU usage. The > problems I am talking

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: So you have no similar problems in -STABLE? How about when untarring a bigger file and playing audio? If not, then maybe trying STABLE on that other drive might be a good idea. Yesterday I was making a level 0 dump of my /usr partition (32429 MB) to another drive, which wa

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:48:17PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. > > Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound > driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks default in GENERIC

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: Another thing to look at might be the scheduler. I'm using SCHED_4BSD. Hmm, I'm using just a GENERIC kernel with support added in for my sound driver and atapicam for K3b. SCHED_4BSD looks default in GENERIC: options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler I've

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:21:41AM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >/boot/device.hints: > > > ># Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. > >hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" > > Hey Roland. Yeah, back when I was looking into amd64 vs i386 version and > had a thread going that you rep

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Roland Smith wrote: My amd64 machine does not have this problem. I'm running 5.4-STABLE: FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 10 20:25:45 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS amd64 One thing I did do was enlarge the soundcard's DMA buffer in /boot

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > > The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some > stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if > video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this > happens. It seems to

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Kane
Daniel Marsh wrote: To get the CD device in dma try setting hw.ata.atapi_dma to 1 with sysctl (may need to go into loader) Only reason I didn't put the DVD burner in DMA is because a K3b howto guide recommended PIO mode. I no longer use K3b (but growisofs) so I guess I could try it but I'm n

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Hi everyone. Last night I finally worked out some issues with my AMD64 > machine and got it up and operational. It's an AMD64 3000+ with 1.5GB > RAM, and five 7200RPM hard drives (total of 720 gigs) running FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE (amd64

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Kane
Daniel Marsh wrote: Could you post your dmesg to the list? I have had a similar problem with SATA hard drives on an Intel PNSLK 945 chipset motherboard with a Pentium D 3ghz. The SATA drives simply would not recognize as DMA, only PIO, in the BIOS there was a setting for ATA/IDE Mode, the

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Kane
TRODAT wrote: Mark, I to am having similar problems with SATA drives, to the point where the audio coming from XMMS sounds just TRIPPING! Well while all my drives are PATA, I should mention that I'm not even trying to play mp3s/Ogg files from any of my five drives most of the time. I run a

Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-24 Thread TRODAT
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Hi everyone. Last night I finally worked out some issues with my AMD64 machine and got it up and operational. It's an AMD64 3000+ with 1.5GB RAM, and five 7200RPM hard drives (total of 720 gigs) running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). When doing testing and

Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Kane
Hi everyone. Last night I finally worked out some issues with my AMD64 machine and got it up and operational. It's an AMD64 3000+ with 1.5GB RAM, and five 7200RPM hard drives (total of 720 gigs) running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). When doing testing and initial install/configuration of this ma

Giant Xorg and Performance Issues

2004-10-26 Thread Loren M. Lang
I have had various performance issues on FreeBSD since I installed 5.2.1 a few months back. Basically, it seems that it's easy to load the system down enough to interrupt xmms playing music which is very bad for me. I'm wondering if 5.2.1 has had lower performance levels than the 4.x l

Odd performance issues - fxp vs xl?

2004-06-18 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I recently had a little run-in with lightning during a recent thunderstorm - which destroyed my FreeBSD based router (along with a good chunk of my home automation system...) The machine had a VIA EPIA mainboard with a 933MHz processor. I had two 3Com 3C905C-TX boards installed for the r

Re: Performance Issues

2004-01-10 Thread Q
> Xine seems to have trouble playing movies at the beginning, it's > choppy for the first several seconds, then resumes the movie normally > after it's in a little ways. Even stopping and restarting, it still > exhibits the same behavior at the beginning of a movie file. Also, > watching dvd's o

Performance Issues

2004-01-10 Thread Loren M. Lang
I have been using freebsd for a couple of months now, and have enjoyed it thus far, but there are a couple of performance issues I've been having with it. Previously I was running linux on this same hardware, so all this issues are freebsd specific. Xine seems to have trouble playing movi

Re: mfs/ramdisk performance issues

2003-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Forrest Aldrich wrote: [ ... ] In a mail gateway configuration, several people have suggested that using a tmpfs (or mfs, depending upon your flavor of Unix) would provide a performance increase (i/o). Though someone argued (on a list posting) that the buffering on normal disk operation would

mfs/ramdisk performance issues

2003-06-18 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I did some reading through other posts, and wanted to get some more input about this. In a mail gateway configuration, several people have suggested that using a tmpfs (or mfs, depending upon your flavor of Unix) would provide a performance increase (i/o). Though someone argued (on a list pos

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-26 Thread David Kelly
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:02 am, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > All that said, even old (16bit)NE2000 clone will easily sustain > 800+kB/s on my old 133Mhz Pentium with CPU load 20% or so. 400kB/s > versus 100kB/s throughput difference in this particular case isn't > matter of 3Com vs. Via NIC,

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-26 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:08:03PM -0500, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing to try is to invert the functions of vr0 and xl0. > > Another Good Thing To Try is to read man pages and source code on the > devices you are using. This is found in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_vr.c: > > * >

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Charles Pelletier
dy Swanson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: RE: Performance issues with natd > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > > I agree with the hardware diagnosis. I have almost the same setup

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread David Kelly
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: [...] > > All that said, it wouldn't hurt to try to use ipfilter or something > like that... that would avoid any extra money being spent if it > solves the problem (I doubt that it will but it might). It would be very easy to swap in

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > I just setup a 4.6.2 machine locally on my network at home to replace an > > aging Linux NAT box I had going. Clients behind the new box can only get > > 100k/sec downloads while clients behind the old Linux box (running ipchains) > > get 400k/sec+ downloads off the same cable modem. Locally o

RE: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Yeh, but is he downloading from the same place with every test? > To be honest, you should be testing the performace across a > reliable link that doesn't change. This way you can tell if it is > related to the machine versus it being an upstream network > problem/

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:02:47PM -0300, Cody Swanson wrote: > Hello all, > > I just setup a 4.6.2 machine locally on my network at home to replace an > aging Linux NAT box I had going. Clients behind the new box can only get > 100k/sec downloads while clients behind the old Linux box (running i

RE: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rogness
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I agree with the hardware diagnosis. I have almost the same setup on a > > nat box that I run, and everything works perfectly. I get good transfer > > speeds, and I use two 3c905b cards from 3com. I would say check and > > re-check your hardware. Goo

RE: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I agree with the hardware diagnosis. I have almost the same setup on a > nat box that I run, and everything works perfectly. I get good transfer > speeds, and I use two 3c905b cards from 3com. I would say check and > re-check your hardware. Good luck. I don't think I agree, he's getting 400 KB/

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I just setup a 4.6.2 machine locally on my network at home to replace an > aging Linux NAT box I had going. Clients behind the new box can only get > 100k/sec downloads while clients behind the old Linux box (running > ipchains) get 400k/sec+ downloads off the same cable modem. Locally on > the

RE: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Knapp
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:11 PM To: Cody Swanson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Performance issues with natd it is not necessarily a NATD issue. your setup looks fine. the cards, however, are not exactly new

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread fozekizer
it is not necessarily a NATD issue. your setup looks fine. the cards, however, are not exactly new. might wanna check your hardware. if not your hardware, then maybe someone here can give you a way to improve the transfer rate but i really think it has most to do with your hardware. > Hell

Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Cody Swanson
Hello all, I just setup a 4.6.2 machine locally on my network at home to replace an aging Linux NAT box I had going. Clients behind the new box can only get 100k/sec downloads while clients behind the old Linux box (running ipchains) get 400k/sec+ downloads off the same cable modem. Locally on th