From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 19 16:09:42 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 162B666F; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:09:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x232.google.com (mail-oa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6DA927E3; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id i4so6265691oah.23 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:09:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nKpFlPldw6wrCRcbHyQmbQl7tXEeDjXUKlnpD/Lmlcg=; b=tV3n2pyMozuoFJh0FIzZEbyKyfWNgD6ijTzi7LkI46nBKsrFE2I5If7vSlMPkFOhDc oZssPrUjpToUb0SWGZ6CbMyGjEIlYufDBlmvMTZBEosaJhiP8o1Rd/YHZDrtkMmzfioI UoSykee8V2rW+RjtbsphIhtP8FIpPOJ8C5WuoGgz7/JvT7nMWA9hWySdxL1IzLB04iHZ ykbI+NTz0P7M4FTH9KXSSm0BZIJ2kaXmCX71cqiO1MH3oIftsD8c+foAqEI1qTfTQXVD KSWyJrUiIBRZgApgs0kIIc7T66pz0K3/RlgjuPY01JrrljPOgxL0epvaT+dxX9P2W4QB PFlQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.71.37 with SMTP id r5mr7695171obu.22.1376928581068; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.2.110 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:09:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <60A37C45-B4BA-4F25-8A43-F09FE0A44453@ixsystems.com> 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> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 From: Outback Dingo To: Alfred Perlstein Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "re@freebsd.org" , "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 16:09:42 -0000 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...... > This results in poor out of the box performance on 10gige and servers with > high vnode requirements. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > > 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 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 that it is being >> >> tested but no statements either way if it was good or not. Hence >> >> I erred on the side of caution and refrained from committing it. >> > >> > Revisiting the history of this after vacation absence actually shows >> > that we straddled the release code freeze deadline and you had provided >> > good testing feedback. However the MFC got rejected by RE on the fear >> > of introducing unknown regressions into the release process. >> > >> >>> Would you do the honors? >> >> >> >> Yes, will do later today. >> > >> > Committed to stable/9 as r254515. >> > >> > Let me know if there are any issues. >> >> Thanks Andre. >> >> Maybe we can do a point release/patch release with this in a few weeks >> for 9.2.1 or 9.2p1 because 9.2 out of the box performance is abysmal not >> only in networking but also disk as maxvnodes is clipped way too small even >> with plenty of ram. >> >> > So your saying, 9.2-RELEASE performance suffers degradation against say > 9.1 ?? are you referring to with this patch enabled? or just in general > 9.2-RELEASE > > >> > >> > -- >> > Andre >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >