2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 22 12:57:05 PST 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> On 21/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>>> Yes, but I had to verify it anyway :)
>>>> You haven't verified anything until you look at how much work the system
>>>> is doing, before and after.
>>> I have, and it's roughly the same (50 +/- 2 queries/s).
>>>
>>> (meaning that I'm not interested in exact statistics here, but in
>>> order-of-magnitude changes, which didn't happen).
>> OK, let's take a step back here.  Did you obtain the lock profiling
>> trace and verify that you're seeing the same problem as Alexey?  Can I
>> see the trace?
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> http://ivoras.sharanet.org/stuff/lock_profile.txt
> 
> This is without your patch.
> 
> There's a lot of ZFS locks in there, but it seems lockmgr:ufs and
> lockmgr:zfs have the largest records:
> 
> 299117621   1474776121       148663     1042821  1414     0          513
>          440 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:2035 (lockmgr:ufs)
> 
> 117958368    847566147       182093        2676 316728    68
> 948          374 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c:515 (lockmgr:zfs)
> 
> Which is surprising since all the working-set file systems are on ZFS,
> only the root and /tmp are on UFS. /tmp also holds sockets for the
> databases.
> 
> Your reading of the lock profile will be appreciated.

OK, how about with?

Kris



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