Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 8/19/13 9:19 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann > wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com>

RE: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
; nones...@longcount.org > Subject: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 > > Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. > > Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the > same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. > > This was fixed

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein > > wrote: >> >> Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. >> >> Vnodes and mbu

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com>> wrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. > > Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount > as a machine with less than 4GB ram. > > This was fixed in head but not merged back in time. > > is t

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in time. This results in poor out of the box performance on 10gige and servers wi

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >> On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>> Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm > wondering

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering >>> can I commit this to >>> 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) >>

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) It didn't make it because there was only sparse feedback after the call

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer < h.schmalzba...@omnilan.de> wrote: > Bezüglich Pascal Drecker's Nachricht vom 16.07.2013 21:42 (localtime): > > ... > > IMHO, this is considered a new feature, and not a critical bug > >fix. re@ > >>>> asked from the start of

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Pascal Drecker's Nachricht vom 16.07.2013 21:42 (localtime): > ... > IMHO, this is considered a new feature, and not a critical bug >fix. re@ >>>> asked from the start of the code slush to avoid new features, and >at >>>> this point, it is too late. It is not wort

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) It didn't make it because there was only sparse feedback after the call for testers. There were a couple of replies

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) Would you do the honors? -Alfred On 7/8/13 7:37 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wro

Aw: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-16 Thread Pascal Drecker
> Op maandag 15 juli 2013 schreef Alfred Perlstein (alf...@ixsystems.com) het > volgende: > >> On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: >

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-16 Thread Johan Hendriks
Op maandag 15 juli 2013 schreef Alfred Perlstein (alf...@ixsystems.com) het volgende: > On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >>> On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: >>> On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrot

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > >On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > >>On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >>>Andre, we have a numbe

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >>On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>>Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the > >>>following configuratio

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen an

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-14 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light the MFC. -- Andre We're rolling it into th

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. We're rolling it into the PCBSD rolling update as well. I'm thinking it makes sense to roll this into the 9.2 release to give us more scalability. -Alfred

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Andre Oppermann" To: "Steven Hartland" Cc: "Alfred Perlstein" ; ; ; Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:47 PM Subject: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 On 11.07.2013 11:08, Steven Hartland wrote: - Origi

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Please test on VMs. I've tested -HEAD in i386 virtualbox all the way down to 128mb with no panics. I'll test with 64mb soon. It's easy to do. i think the i386 PAE stuff on ${LARGE} memory systems is still broken. Peter? -adrian On 11 July 2013 07:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Andre, Peter wha

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, Peter what about i386? Ever since I touched this Peter has been worried about i386 and said we've broken the platform. I'm going to boot some vms but maybe we ought to get some testing from Peter on i386? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2013, at 5:47 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 11.07.2013 11:08, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andre Oppermann" On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Andre Oppermann" On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/11/13 12:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give fe

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give feedback. http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/m

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 08.07.2013 16:41, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Andre Oppermann mailto:an...@freebsd.org>> wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Pleas

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> >>> Can you help me with with testing? >>> >>> Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine >> and give feedback. >>

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and give feedback. http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/mfc-autotuning-20130708.diff This is function

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I fear (maybe unnec

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I fear (maybe unnecessarily?) that we are about to ship yet a