Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Probably on friday morning (Italy time) I'll have some time to access and compare 2 quite identical Dell M610 blades. One with an up2date 5.5 and another with rh el 6 beta2 + kernel update. Both x86_64. These ones are connected to internal storage and also to 10Gbit/s iSCSI SAN (the target of my

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-10 Thread Paolo Campegiani
Def. Quota Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch: But don't barriers affect mostly writes? If yes, is it because of the logs and atime? 80% still looks like too much, maybe it's so bad because of the virtualized environment? I have not access to an hardware setup to check it, but I'd suggest to

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-09 Thread solarflow99
Also I don't think touching the default filesystem and it's config is a good thing here. One can always tune things as needed but the defaults should be sane. Simon I had wondered about this too, the link provided showed a tuning guide from 1999, it makes me wonder if mounting noatime or

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-09 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens mstev...@imt-systems.com wrote: Both systems running on the same hardware. (virtualized with VMWare Workstation 7.1 VMware tools build number for each version of Red Hat? ___ rhelv6-beta-list

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:58:12PM -0500, Ashley Penney wrote: One thing to consider is the 'nobarrier' option for ext4 - apparently makes a big performance difference. This is probably it. This was discussed ad infinitum when it was changed upstream, and caused a huge performance

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-08 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/9 Edward Rudd er...@netfor.com: Are you using Ext3 or Ext4 on the RHEL 6 system?  Might try to use ext3 and see if it makes any difference, I've tried it with ext3 and ext4 and it makes no difference. Also are these in VMs or bare hardware? and are the two servers the same? Both

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-08 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/9 Marco Shaw marco.s...@gmail.com: Well, right off, when you listed your hardware, I never assumed it was virtualized.  At the very least, I would want to see this test in a hypervisor virtualized environment, and even better directly on hardware. Adding an virtual application layer

Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

2010-11-08 Thread Marco Shaw
I'd love to try it and break it down using SystemTap... I just don't have the free time. RHEL 5.5 + updates versus RHEL 6 Beta 2 July refresh? On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens mstev...@imt-systems.com wrote: 2010/11/9 Marco Shaw marco.s...@gmail.com: Well, right off, when