Re: [smartos-discuss] ZFS snapshots -- zsnapper

2015-02-08 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Greg, you’re probably thinking of znapzend, http://znapzend.org/ by Tobias Oetiker et al. In addition to maintaining local snapshots, it can backup to a local or remote destination over mbuffer or ssh with zfs send/receive. It stores its configuration as zfs properties and comes with

Re: [smartos-discuss] Porting SmartOS to Intel D54250WYKH NUC...

2014-12-26 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Marc, As you may realize, most versions of OS X may only be virtualized on Apple hardware per the license agreement. (An exception is Snow Leopard Server, which was ~ $500 back in the day.) This is probably one reason why not much has been written about running OS X on SmartOS – though

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-08-09 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Ian, I agree that something is wrong. The whole point of using those fancy Intel NICs should be to reduce the CPU load, right? Here is a technote from HELIOS, makers of the enterprise AFP server EtherShare, about 10GbE tuning: http://www.helios.de/web/EN/support/TI/154.html They say

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Ian, Right now I'm fighting with my Finder/AFP/netatalk/getcwd() performance issues, which are a landmine, so the 10GbE slowdowns are the least of my worries. But here is what I did find out. It helps to tune the following TCP stack parameters: # ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 40

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
not, but it comes up often enough that I prefer to check.) On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org wrote: I'm trying to debug a network performance issue. I have two servers running SmartOS (20140613T024634Z

Re: [smartos-discuss] Is getcwd() just a very expensive syscall?

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
6, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Robert Mustacchi via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org wrote: On 08/06/2014 07:31 AM, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss wrote: Following up on my previous posts, I have now successfully increased the size of the DNLC from 450,000 (default) to 10,000,000

Re: [smartos-discuss] Modifying /etc/system

2014-08-04 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Dewey, You are absolutely right. If I actually put set ncsize=nnn in my copy of etc/system on the boot USB key, the kernel picks up the new value as shown by # echo ncsize/D | mdb -k even though /etc/system appears unchanged. Well, I guess I was being too careful this time. Thanks! Chris

[smartos-discuss] Modifying /etc/system

2014-08-03 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
I'm trying to modify /etc/system, specifically to set ncsize to a higher value than the default in order to get a larger DNLC and improve the DNLC cache hit rate. My test system is booting a standard joyent_20140724T221203Z image from a USB key. Following

Re: [smartos-discuss] Problem with netatalk, very long response times from getcwd()

2014-08-01 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
schrieb Robert Mustacchi r...@joyent.com: On 07/31/2014 08:15 AM, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss wrote: I'm trying to debug performance issues on a SmartOS joyent_20140613T024634Z server that is running netatalk in a zone. After some investigation with the help of netatalk developer Ralph

[smartos-discuss] Problem with netatalk, very long response times from getcwd()

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
I'm trying to debug performance issues on a SmartOS joyent_20140613T024634Z server that is running netatalk in a zone. After some investigation with the help of netatalk developer Ralph Böhme, I find that the netatalk afpd is spending a very long time in the syscall getcwd() in some

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
/wesolows/2013/12/28/anonymous-tracing-on-smartos/ or is there a simpler way? Thanks, Chris Am 21.07.2014 um 00:23 schrieb Richard Elling via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org: On Jul 19, 2014, at 6:42 AM, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
the stack. What do you think? Thanks, Chris Am 21.07.2014 um 15:51 schrieb Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:31:05PM +0200, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss wrote: Observing CPU utilization during the test using mpstat, I see

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
on the answers to the above it might be interesting to see if there is any improvement by increasing rx_queue_number and tx_queue_number on the ixgbe driver. Regards, Nick On 19 July 2014 14:42, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org wrote: I'm trying

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
the test are there any CPU cores with very low idle time? Depending on the answers to the above it might be interesting to see if there is any improvement by increasing rx_queue_number and tx_queue_number on the ixgbe driver. Regards, Nick On 19 July 2014 14:42, Chris Ferebee via

Re: [smartos-discuss] 10GbE throughput limited to 1Gb/s, why?

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
using say veritas vvr increasing this helps just a passing thought On 20 Jul 2014 14:19, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org wrote: Nick, running 12 streams in parallel, I do see one CPU maxed out (core 0 as shown below). If I understand things

Re: [smartos-discuss] ntp errors

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
FWIW, I'm seeing exactly the same issue with a fresh install of smartos-20140613T024634Z (also happens with smartos-20140530T010428Z) on a Supermicro X9DR3-F, dual Intel X350, only igb0 currently in use and configured with a static NAT IP. I haven't figured out what is going on, but I do have

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS HA

2014-06-12 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Speaking of VMware, what ever became of Sun AVS a. k. a. SNDR Remote Mirror? I once set up a HA file server with that years ago, and am told that it’s be working well to this day. Has it simply been rolled into a commercial Oracle offering, or did it turn out to be a fundamentally bad idea?

Re: [smartos-discuss] Boot failure with many unformatted drives installed

2014-05-16 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
is not forthcoming. Best, Chris Am 16.05.2014 um 22:12 schrieb Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:54:03PM +0200, Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss wrote: Booting a system with many unformatted drives installed can fail. Perhaps

Re: [smartos-discuss] sshd support for ed25519 keys for pubkey auth

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Ferebee via smartos-discuss
Keith, I decided to use OpenSSH rather than SunSSH in my SmartOS zones because I couldn’t figure out how to enable chroot for sftp otherwise. Is there a way to do it with SunSSH? Thanks, Chris Am 30.04.2014 um 18:18 schrieb Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss