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by Walker, Bruce J (HP-Labs) :: Rate this Message:

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Performance numbers would be most useful if done as a comparison (say base vs. single node CFS or CFS server node vs. non-server node; chard vs. non chard, etc.).  We could then identify which areas need work (CFS stacked on ext3 or remote CFS;  large reads vs. small writes, etc.).

Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: ssic-linux-users-admin@... [mailto:ssic-linux-users-admin@...] On Behalf Of Roger Tsang
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 4:45 PM
To: Stephan Böni
Cc: ssic-linux-users@...
Subject: Re: [SSI-users] Performance Tests

On 12/19/05, Stephan Böni <boeni@...> wrote:

>
> Perhaps nice to know: We've made a lot performance tests (disk i/o
> related) with an OpenSSI 1.9.2 (SUSE) cluster containing 4 nodes IBM
> x336 with each 1 Xen 3 GHz CPU / 4 GB RAM and one IBM DS4300 storage
> system attached over fibre channel with 8 RAID5 FC-Disks. Here are the results:
>
> - One system as single system has a good r/w performance.
> - One system as single node OpenSSI cluster (not usable) has a
> terrible r/w performance.
> - Two systems (nodes) in a OpenSSI cluster have a good read but still
> a terrible write performace.
> - 3 and 4 nodes are not better than 2 nodes on r/w performance.
>
> On heavy load OpenSSI crashs sometimes. The disk write performance is
> so terrible, that my old PC with an ide disk is faster. :-( Perhaps
> that could be faster with GFS.
>
> Stephan
>

This is what I'm getting on FC3 SSI-1.9.2 preview AMD64 3000+ nodes with 2GB RAM each with IDE disks (not raided).  Running the tests at the CFS server on DRBD storage (procotol C) with Gigabit ICS (MTU
1500) and the filesystem is ext3 (rw,noatime,chard) with failover enabled.  Default /proc/sys/vm knobs.

The following is just to give an idea, since there is a certain level of buffering going on here.

        Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
                Version $Revision: 3.226 $
                Compiled for 32 bit mode.
                Build: linux

        Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins
                     Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss
                     Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR,
                     Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million,
                     Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg,
                     Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker.

        Run began: Mon Dec 19 19:28:52 2005

        Auto Mode
        File size set to 81920 KB
        Command line used: /opt/iozone/bin/iozone -a -s 80m
        Output is in Kbytes/sec
        Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
        Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes.
        Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
        File stride size set to 17 * record size.
                                                            random
random    bkwd  record  stride
              KB  reclen   write rewrite    read    reread    read  
write    read rewrite    read   fwrite frewrite   fread  freread
           81920       4  592283  619564   988083   980068  878961  
20679  941683 1586735  898274   548708   592566 1013722  1011595
           81920       8  667475  696829  1150625  1187178 1076745  
29790  960869 1083355 1059753   620187   658304 1138362  1167036
           81920      16  698469  719081  1375325  1385189 1290629  
35736 1309778 1360550  603942   115238   449226 1201207   537780
           81920      32  419373  695628  1425044   554109 1414509  
16313 1423036 2156929 1372745   678662   495718 1323854  1420667
           81920      64  722640  434416  1421208  1353176 1290444  
17924 1323576 1510463 1341103   221657   281032 1290404   998561
           81920     128  684029  781753  1293133  1301826 1327970  
37276 1300853 1603821 1312924   628143   654124 1319672  1317889
           81920     256  681287  714472  1061937  1091101 1113102  
36389  981677 1061138 1081709   326928   482651 1125198  1138187
           81920     512  363705  365272   720733   738417  735018  
37955  721412  632064  713837   417016   396106  709902   562062
           81920    1024  365789  358002   739383   728818  732717  
43929  732887  581319  726994   424326   444714  735659   412643
           81920    2048  571919  590733   425885   712323  719789  
44347  697946  670611  718332   294249   447814  674666   738364
           81920    4096  559207  591715   730456   730619  739503
109754  736915  673545  727609   428350   325316  669850   694349
           81920    8192  559704  589009   742150   729338  723188
102824  742553  663567  714036   445961   474620  744605   730358
           81920   16384  348019  595041   735355   404941  739103  
43135  418527  664757  653248   425461   471821  649071   361038

iozone test complete.

Roger


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