Hi All, SUN have come up with a more permanent fix which is the addition of a virtual page manager (VPM) to the solaris kernel. It was due to become part of the next release of Solaris anyway but we've been given an advanced update to implement it. Things are now behaving rather more as expected given the hardware's raw capability. For those that care you can read around the subject if you look for BugID 6256083 and related docs. Cheers Joe ________________________________ From: joe fletcher Sent: Wed 15/10/2008 15:21 To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: SUMMARY (partial): UFS slowness on Opteron It's memory management on the Opterons. If we rip out most of the DIMMs it speeds up. The machine originally had 256Gb and was pushing data half the speed of our other machines with 128Gb fitted. If we run the tests with 32Gb it behaves fine. We're playing with the hardware config to find out where the tiping point is. Cheers Joe ________________________________ Hi, This is a bit woolly so apologies in advance. Got some new x4600, 8x quad core Opteron boxes, 256Gb RAM attached to EMC Clariion cx380s via Emulex LP10K HBAs. Kernel rev is 127112-11. We have a big financial app that we're trying to migrate from a 6900 but when it comes to filesystem performance it's dragging. We've done some testing with iozone and the Opterons seem to be consistently slower than the SPARCs. For example on one of our write tests the AMDs do it in approx 1 min whereas an old v490 can do the same test in under 20s. We discovered last night that if we use ZFS we can get the AMDs to behave however we're not sure about ZFS support for the application. We've tried various tuning eg maxphys, sd-max-transfer, sd throttling and so on. Things that seem to work on the SPARCs provide no apparent benefit on the AMDs even though the docs indicate they should. Does anyone know of where we might look to get UFS to perform up to expectation? Cheers Joe _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Oct 27 07:51:25 2008
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