From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 19 17:45:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BF7F86; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alfred@ixsystems.com) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43C242DD8; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [10.2.55.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF09F64303; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([10.2.55.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [10.2.55.1]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21586-04; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kruse-124.4.ixsystems.com (kruse-124.4.ixsystems.com [10.2.4.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C824642FB; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ixsystems.com; s=newknight0; t=1376934333; bh=Vj5TveXkkZuUOe8QzuiyWRbnr1IverJaAndxfNBuZN0=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=PJ8B9W5RP0vmNvpqMX7zDwGFlrezhh+B5zNs56jrBlSs6qrpt7fWUArayKaJiGsmt 6eZjJ5xTcp4UV3JMcCj/aVvF0QiM9TTG7rzErVBc42p7fYc0OotbETXzNx6X46T5+d xHZLqcpkcgpHmAS6RV3yKVAmiALxYEIyvmgWRobU= Message-ID: <521259C1.8010807@ixsystems.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:45:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Outback Dingo Subject: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 References: <51D90B9B.9080209@ixsystems.com> <51D92826.1070707@freebsd.org> <51D9B24B.8070303@ixsystems.com> <51DACE93.9050608@freebsd.org> <520DC77C.1070003@ixsystems.com> <520DE306.4080004@freebsd.org> <5211EAD0.1060404@freebsd.org> <19B7F957-EF1D-4452-986A-3F4C51CA647E@ixsystems.com> <60A37C45-B4BA-4F25-8A43-F09FE0A44453@ixsystems.com> <52124502.3050405@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , Andre Oppermann , "nonesuch@longcount.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:45:34 -0000 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 > > >> > 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 there a patch set i can backport on my own, do we know what > revision(s) are required? Ive got > boxes with > 128GB and 10Gbe Intel....... so im willing to do some work...... > > > I have committed it to 9-stable this morning with r254515. No > backporting necessary. > > > Okay so wait, your saying the autotune commit this morning resolves > Alfreds claims of abysmal > performance in general, Yes. > or is there other additional fixes in head aside from the autotune hes > mentioning Well of course head has cool code, but this was a big problem. -Alfred