status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

Alfred Perlstein alfred at ixsystems.com
Mon Aug 19 17:45:34 UTC 2013


On 8/19/13 9:19 AM, Outback Dingo wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org 
> <mailto:andre at freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>     On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote:
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>         On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein
>         <alfred at ixsystems.com <mailto:alfred at ixsystems.com>
>         <mailto:alfred at ixsystems.com <mailto:alfred at ixsystems.com>>>
>         wrote:
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>             Performance is bad for large memory requirements period.
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>             Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to
>         the same amount as a machine with less
>             than 4GB ram.
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>             This was fixed in head but not merged back in time.
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>         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......
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>     I have committed it to 9-stable this morning with r254515.  No
>     backporting necessary.
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> 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


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