On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 10:53 AM David Boreham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 8/14/2020 9:04 AM, Ben Spencer wrote: > > After a little investigation I didn't find any recent information on > > how well / linearly 389 scales from a CPU perspective. I also realize > > this is a more complicated topic with many factors which actually play > > into it. > > > > Throwing the basic question out there: Does 389 scale fairly > > linearly as the number of CPUs are increased? Is there a point where > > it drops off? > > Cached reads (cached anywhere : filesystem cache, db page pool, entry > cache) should scale quite well, at least to 4/6/8 CPU. I'm not sure > about today's 8+ CPU systems but would assume probably not great scaling > beyond 8 until proven otherwise. > Interesting since we are currently sitting with 10 CPU per server. Things organically grew over time without much thought given. Writes are going to be heavily serialized, assume no CPU scaling. Fast > I/O is what you need for write throughput. > Where am I going with this? > > We are faced with either adding more CPUs to the existing servers or > > adding more instances or a combination of the two. The current servers > > have 10 CPU with the entire database fitting in RAM but, there is a > > regular flow of writes. Sometimes somewhat heavy thanks to batch > > updates. Gut feeling tells me to have more servers than a few huge > > servers largely because of the writes/updates and lock contention. > > Needing to balance the server sprawl as well. > > I'd look at whether I/O throughput (Write IOPS particularly) can be > upgraded as a first step. Then perhaps look at system design to see if > the batch updates can be throttled/trickled to reduce the cross-traffic > interference. Usually the write load is the limiting factor scaling > because it has to be replayed on every server regardless of its read > workload. > Something to consider. Hard to resolve in the environment where the servers are. _______________________________________________ > 389-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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