I installed PTS on one of my lab machines and was able to replicate
the slowness you observed.  CPU utilization was very low during the
test, indicating a bottleneck or contention somewhere.  Current
evidence points to excessive time spent waiting in connect(2) calls.
I'll keep you updated when I learn more.

Thanks

On 25 May 2017 at 19:03, apg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I found this:
> http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html
>
> The comparison systems were identical. The esx vm was limited to 4 cpus while
> the smartos had 56 (bare metal). Both were allocated 2GB of memory. From a
> casual glance, everything appears to be fine. CPU, memory, diskio, iostat,
> etc. It's just slow. Maybe the common thread is bash? It appears that phoronix
> execs through bash to thrash on apache? We'll keep digging...
>
> -al
>
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 03:28:11PM -0700, Robert Mustacchi wrote:
>> On 5/25/17 15:23 , apg wrote:
>> > Has anyone ran the Phoronix Test Suite on smartos? I've tried it in an 
>> > lx-zone:
>> >  "image_uuid": "68a837fe-1b9b-11e7-a66d-ab7961786c42"
>> >
>> > and in a joyent smartos zone:
>> >  "image_uuid": "f6acf198-2037-11e7-8863-8fdd4ce58b6a",
>> >
>> > - SmartOS (build: 20170413T062226Z)
>> >
>> > One of the few tests that would run on solaris is the pts/apache test:
>> >
>> > ./phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/apache
>> >
>> > I've tried it on two generations of servers, and compared the results to
>> > similar hardware running esx with a full blown vm with centos 6 installed. 
>> > The
>> > results for smartos are awful. An average: 1749.53 Requests Per Second for
>> > the smartos zone -vs- 23425.61 Requests Per Second for the full vm (centos 
>> > 6)
>> > on an esx host. The performance of the lx-zone were very similar to the
>> > smartos zone.
>> >
>> > On the pts/apache test, the host on esx ran the test in 3 minutes,
>> > approximately; the smartos zone, and the lx-zone were closer to 30 minutes.
>>
>> In general, I'd start with using a basic USE method analysis on the
>> system and check how much CPU, etc. you've specified versus what the
>> systems in question are trying to use.
>>
>> Robert
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -al
> 


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