Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-10-01 Thread Rob Seastrom
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 7:43 PM, Matthew Parsons > wrote: > > FWIW, the main production workload that I will care about is a not-well > threaded java server app, so single-threaded performance, coupled with a > large-ish MySQL DB with frequent, random I/O both read

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-10-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/ 1/16 10:18 PM, Paul Sture wrote: On 1 Oct 2016, at 2:00, Ian Collins wrote: On 10/ 1/16 12:43 PM, Matthew Parsons wrote: (Sorry for the delay in replying.) Please note I didn't ask "what matches my workload" or "please architect my setup for me" :P Mainly I just wanted something for a

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-10-01 Thread Paul Sture
On 1 Oct 2016, at 2:00, Ian Collins wrote: On 10/ 1/16 12:43 PM, Matthew Parsons wrote: (Sorry for the delay in replying.) Please note I didn't ask "what matches my workload" or "please architect my setup for me" :P Mainly I just wanted something for a couple basic sanity checks that

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-30 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/ 1/16 12:43 PM, Matthew Parsons wrote: (Sorry for the delay in replying.) Please note I didn't ask "what matches my workload" or "please architect my setup for me" :P Mainly I just wanted something for a couple basic sanity checks that hardware is performing in the general ballpark of

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-30 Thread Matthew Parsons
(Sorry for the delay in replying.) Please note I didn't ask "what matches my workload" or "please architect my setup for me" :P Mainly I just wanted something for a couple basic sanity checks that hardware is performing in the general ballpark of what it should, that there weren't any

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 27/09/16 12:57 pm, Matthew Parsons wrote: Is there a suite/script/configs for benchmarks that have emerged as standardized in the smartos community? I'm most interested in disk I/O, and would like to compare native linux hardware RAID vs MD RAID, and Native zone hardware RAID vs. ZFS

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-26 Thread philip . haynes
Hi Matthew, I have previously run disk performance tests with ZFS. Certainly not a standard, but enough to characterise performance. At a high level performance with ZFS is akin to standalone native SSD. see

[smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-26 Thread Matthew Parsons
Is there a suite/script/configs for benchmarks that have emerged as standardized in the smartos community? I'm most interested in disk I/O, and would like to compare native linux hardware RAID vs MD RAID, and Native zone hardware RAID vs. ZFS (without and with SLOG). Ideally (time permitting)