What happens if you run the test in a Centos 6 KVM on smartos instead of LX?
Nicholas On 26 May 2017 at 12:10, Patrick Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------- 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
