Toumo brought up his old server, running F29, and I am doing a benchmark of testrun - time run our current KVM test suite using kvmrunner.
Here are the first results. 80 Minutes for a testrun. This is impressive to me. Number of tests from master ~748. |KVM_WORKERS/KVM_PREFIX| run time | | 12/28 | 79 Minutes | | 8/24 | 101 | | 8/28 | 118 | I suspect there is still room tune more. We will see. So the 7 year old Enterprise Xeon perform better than a new (6 months old) basic servers in the same price range. Specs of the server: CPU: 2 x E5-2650L RAM : 256GB = 16 * 16GB HD : 8*2TB HGST enterprise sata disks Motherboard : X9DRi-F https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRi-F.cfm Similar systems go for about €1000 - 15000 (refurbished used servers) However, Tuomo notes it is noisy when I run tests:) New ONE: about €1200 CPU: E3-1240v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97469 Ram : 64GB = 4 * 16 GB = 64 ECC ram SSD : 2 * 500 GB Samsung EVO 960 SSD raid1 Motherboard : Supermicor X11SSL-F https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSL-F.cfm I hope this motivates people to collect old Xeon servrs they are great machines for testrun:) -antony PS kernel compiling, 5.0.4, with F29 .config file takes 9 vs 20 minutes. I suspect if I upgrade to SSD(from spinning disk) kernel compiling would be a bit more faster on the E5 server. _______________________________________________ Swan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreswan.org/mailman/listinfo/swan-dev
