(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 pathological issues w/ the drivers under SmartOS. Secondarily would be something that can run under native, LX, and KVM to compare relative overheads, and to compare against the same hardware running, say Ubuntu Server or CentOS. If it were something that there was a public database to compare against, that would be a bonus.
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 and write. I went down the rabbit-hole of attempting to to use the Phoronix Test Suite since it "supports" Solaris and BSD, has some pre-defined Java and Database test setups, and can compare to publicly recorded reports. However chasing down the dependencies and chasing down the various "this test failed" errors was taking up too much time. Looks like I'll stick w/ Bonnie++ and IOZone via PkgSrc. (Which means I'll have to start over w/ CentOS) On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ian Collins <ian.iansh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 (without and with SLOG). >> >> This is a classic "it depends" question. The only reliable benchmark is > one close to your actual workload. You should be building your ZFS pool to > match. > > In my case, my of my systems are in build farms, so I use database > benchmarks along with building a representative project (or gcc). > > Ideally (time permitting) would want to test comparing native, LX zone, >> and KVM. Anyone have ballpark figures of the performance overhead those >> respective types, ideally of the various subsystems? (Disk, CPU, network, >> memory) >> >> Again, it depends what you are doing. LX is much kinder on the hardware > and will have better I/O, but there are corners where KVM will still be > faster. > > Ian. > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
