From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 23:23:45 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 D22E716A426 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 23:23:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from artemis.hyperconx.net (artemis.hyperconx.net [66.181.8.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8944143D45 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 23:23:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from adsl-69-225-224-190.dsl.skt2ca.pacbell.net ([69.225.224.190] helo=Production) by artemis.hyperconx.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FPpRZ-000JqY-2w for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:23:45 -0800 From: "Wil Hatfield" To: Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 15:25:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200603312142.00066.amistry@am-productions.biz> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues 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: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:23:45 -0000 I am giving 6.1 a whirl. In the first 5 minutes I have already noticed that there are some obvious filesystem issues fixed. I ran a tar and compared the speed to that on one of my 4.x boxes and low and behold they are about the same. THANK GOD! Now I didn't put your -j100 to the test but I did give a -j20 a shot. No DMA issues, no kernel panics, and actually pretty good performance overall. 109 processes: 20 running, 88 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 98.0% user, 0.0% nice, 2.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 147M Active, 72M Inact, 109M Wired, 112M Buf, 1673M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 49641 root 1 129 0 12476K 11880K RUN 1 0:01 45.00% cc1 49487 root 1 121 0 10148K 9584K CPU3 0 0:01 29.60% cc1 49585 root 1 121 0 12780K 12220K RUN 0 0:01 28.71% cc1 49653 root 1 129 0 11036K 10428K RUN 3 0:00 27.00% cc1 49649 root 1 128 0 9476K 8880K RUN 1 0:00 24.00% cc1 49571 root 1 121 0 12540K 11972K RUN 0 0:01 22.06% cc1 49592 root 1 121 0 11728K 11104K RUN 0 0:00 13.31% cc1 49618 root 1 122 0 10684K 10116K RUN 0 0:01 12.61% cc1 49599 root 1 121 0 10924K 10352K CPU1 0 0:00 12.26% cc1 49595 root 1 121 0 10576K 10012K RUN 0 0:00 11.91% cc1 49632 root 1 121 0 10876K 10312K CPU2 0 0:00 10.85% cc1 49605 root 1 121 0 10704K 10132K RUN 0 0:00 10.50% cc1 49630 root 1 121 0 10656K 10088K RUN 0 0:00 10.50% cc1 49603 root 1 121 0 10864K 10296K RUN 0 0:00 10.50% cc1 49621 root 1 121 0 10712K 10144K RUN 0 0:00 8.75% cc1 49637 root 1 121 0 10920K 10300K RUN 0 0:00 8.75% cc1 49611 root 1 121 0 10936K 10364K RUN 0 0:00 8.40% cc1 49470 root 1 8 0 3576K 3464K ppwait 2 0:00 3.50% make 588 root 1 96 0 6120K 3096K select 0 0:03 0.00% sshd 37381 root 1 96 0 548K 436K select 0 0:00 0.00% make 37467 root 1 96 0 808K 696K select 0 0:00 0.00% make 37380 root 1 96 0 2472K 1720K CPU0 0 0:00 0.00% top 597 root 1 96 0 6080K 3080K select 0 0:00 0.00% sshd 47338 root 1 96 0 772K 664K select 0 0:00 0.00% make 603 root 1 20 0 5108K 3200K pause 2 0:00 0.00% csh 594 root 1 20 0 4852K 2880K pause 0 0:00 0.00% csh Now off to try to kill it some more. -- Wil Hatfield -----Original Message----- From: Anish Mistry [mailto:amistry@am-productions.biz] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 March 2006 21:28, Wil Hatfield wrote: > Beto, > > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the > > performance testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it > > live. > > Suggestions for tools that REALLY hammer? "make -j100 buildworld" is always fun :) > > > -- > Wil Hatfield > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Norberto Meijome [mailto:freebsd@meijome.net] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:17 PM > To: Wil Hatfield > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues > > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:00:34 -0800 > > "Wil Hatfield" wrote: > > Beto, > > > > I am currently trying to upgrade one without customers on it to > > 6.0. But as was the problem with 5.4 the problems don't show up > > until the machine is under high load. So even under 6 I won't > > have a clue if the issues are fixed until I get the customers on > > it. So it doesn't make alot of difference. > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the performance > testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it live. > > > I checked with the manufacturer or the machine and they assure me > > that they installed brand new high quality 80/40 cables. But then > > again what did I expect them to say. So do you know of a good > > high quality 80/40 manufacture and where I can buy some new > > cables? What's the best of the best? > > not really - i had my bad experience with cables, just went out, > got the ones that a) weren't 10 for a buck , b) actually looked > well built. I just went to my preferred provider here in town > (eer... "online" actually...but they are local (Syd, AU) ) > > > At Supermicro's recommendation I already phlashed to the latest > > bios. > > cool - but my point was not to assume that new bios would be better > - it may actually be a step backwards when combined with your other > hardware and software. > > > Well it is good to know you think 6 is better than 5.4. But then > > again you are running SATA and we all know 6 runs SATA better. > > Hopefully it runs ATA better too. > > actually, that's the only box with SATA - all the others run PATA > or SCSI. > B > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/