From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 18:30:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648B5106564A for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 18:30:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryce@bryce.net) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5328FC17 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 18:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh20 with SMTP id 20so1439902gyh.13 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 11:30:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.59.15 with SMTP id m15mr7735989ybk.246.1272911417765; Mon, 03 May 2010 11:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.57.11 with HTTP; Mon, 3 May 2010 11:30:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:30:17 -0500 Message-ID: From: Bryce Edwards To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8-STABLE performance issues on Supermicro Core i7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 03 May 2010 18:30:27 -0000 I have tried both drives independently (two system drives currently in ZFS mirror), but the interrupts was something that caught my attention as well. I haven't yet tried polling yet on the em interface, but I still have interrupts like what you are seeing (minus the em ones) when I'm just compiling and not really using the network, so I was going to wait before going down that path. Bryce On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Adam Vande More wr= ote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Bryce Edwards wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've got a new Supermicro X58 system with an Intel Core i7 930 with 6 >> GB ram that is not performing nearly as fast as it should in many ways >> (compiling, network transfers). =A0To give an example, it has been >> building the gcc44 port for about 10 hours now and at the same time >> rsync'ing from a Linux box on the same Gigabit network is only getting >> throughput of between 10-25 MB/sec. =A0When I did a buildkernel for >> 8-STABLE, it took 17 hours! =A0My investigations have shown inhibited >> performance on compute, network and storage activities. >> > > Have you investigated potential faulty HD?=A0 I have an i7 870 and your a= hci > interrupts are an order of magintude greater than mine.=A0 That could be = many > other things too, but I think a SMART scan could help. > > -- > Adam Vande More >