Tristan Ball wrote:
> I've also just recieved this t-patch, and I'll be testing this weekend.
> I'll post results asap.
We've received the patch quite some time ago - and so far I can say that
it seems a good and *freakin' fast* one. <digging for the results> ah -
there they are.
>
> According to my contact at sun, they are looking at a Jan/03 date for
> the official release.
[...this is a snippage from an internal mail...]
I have finished the fcntl-tests on Unlucky. As you might
have heard me before - they are quite impressive. The locker program
goes amazingly faster and even if the machine is loaded, it is still
quite responsive. As a matter of fact - terminals no longer seem locked
when under load.
The samba torture test also shows radical improvement. I could
go as high as 250 simultaneous processes before, because of some
limitations occuring also on BSD (Chris Smith confirmed this) hit and
the tests were aborted.
Here are some results - to judge for yourself:
Locker
------
800 processes - 50 locks
BEFORE AFTER
12mins 55sec 00mins 07sec
900 processes - 50 locks
16mins 57sec 00mins 10sec
1000 processes - 50 locks
26mins 25sec 00mins 13sec
1100 processes - 50 locks
36mins 50sec 00mins 15sec
1200 processes - 50 locks
59mins 40sec 00mins 21sec
At this point I no loger have data for the "BEFORE" case, so all
I can say is that I went as high as 4100 processes with 50 locks and I
got 6mins and 50 seconds to completion.
The most interesting thing to note is that by far the most
time-comsuming task is forking the processes, and that once they're
created, draining the locks in the queue only takes a few seconds, where
as before it would've taken a comparable amount of time to the creation
time.
Samba Torture
-------------
BEFORE AFTER
100 clients 1673.03 secs 750.573 secs
78.8988 MBit/sec 175.866 MBit/sec
150 clients 3159.51 secs 1213.71 secs
62.668 MBit/sec 163.136 MBit/sec
200 clients NO DATA 1905.17 secs
138.571 MBit/sec
250 clients NO DATA 2686.8 secs
122.823 MBit/sec
[...end of snippage...]
I hope you find these results interesting. Unfortunately I
cannot say anything about how this patch behaves in productions since
it was decided that it shall not be inflicted upon our users just yet.
Questions? Anyone? Drool? :)
Ino!~
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