From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 03:26:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF8E16A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:26:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCD943D48 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:26:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D41D1A3C1B; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CD4654A46; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:26:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:26:05 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Michael Barnett Message-ID: <20060118032604.GA97030@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <47A794C0-FE22-46FC-9D81-BCF3359CBD61@measuremap.com> <20060118010418.GA95598@xor.obsecurity.org> <0F01FAC2-09A7-47EC-AB05-B75564FC2433@measuremap.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0F01FAC2-09A7-47EC-AB05-B75564FC2433@measuremap.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE causing system crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:26:09 -0000 --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:38:08PM -0600, Michael Barnett wrote: > It ran fine when we were only throwing a few dozen qps at it... when =20 > we tried to throw about 350qps its way, it was much much slower... =20 > slower than our existing server with significantly fewer resources =20 > available. >=20 > I never could figure out what the issue was... tried recompiling with =20 > different options, allocating more and less memory to mysql (really =20 > to innodb as all our tables are innodb), and a number of system =20 > tweaks to no avail. >=20 > Are you running it on an opteron, or on a xeon? I have heard things =20 > go much smoother on AMD hardware. I've used it for mysql benchmarking (using supersmack) on amd hardware and got quite good performance from it. I've not used it with a 'real' database on that machine. > Anyways.. the damage is done. We are back on i386 and I just need to =20 > make it go! Right now i am just running with the stable non-PAE =20 > kernel that limits access to 4G of memory while i work this out. It could be a driver issue, although since you're not adding drivers to the PAE config I don't know why this would be. Still, you could post your dmesg so that someone might be able to recognize a problem. Try looking for an updated BIOS. It could be that your HW has a buggy implementation. Kris --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDzbVMWry0BWjoQKURAqioAJ45gI8QyE/SVImVVCFky36NTCN4ugCbBrmG kGmAfb732LVB6vMdK7TQXZU= =3kcb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--