performance of jailed processes
Dag-ErlingSmørgrav
des at des.no
Tue Mar 30 11:09:43 PST 2004
Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:
> - DNS -- I know you mentioned it, but I'd check anyway. Especially if
> resolv.conf has bad DNS servers in it in the jails, etc. You might try
> writing a trivial gethostbyname() test app and timing it in and out of
> the jail. Also look at the reverse lookup done by the MySQL server.
> The impact of the source IP address might be particularly interesting.
Packet traces already show that there is no delay between query and
reply, the reply just takes a long time to transmit.
> - It would be interesting to know if applications outside the jail bound
> to various IP addresses see performance differences depending on the IP
> used. We have hashed IP address lookup, but there are some operations
> in the stack that require walking the list of addresses, etc. If the
> non-jailed software always uses the first address because they're all in
> the same subnet, that might conceivably make a difference. Taking jail
> out of the picture in some basic micro-benchmarks might help here also.
Non-jailed software always uses the first IP address, which is in its
own subnet. The jails draw from a pool of ~1000 IP addresses on the
same interface, but in a different subnet. The jail I've been testing
in is about a quarter of the way down the list.
> Can you identify any micro-benchmarks rather than macro-benchmarks that
> reflect a significant difference?
haven't had much luck with that... fetch, for instance, doesn't seem
to suffer, but with mysql the difference is dramatic:
(outside jail)
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
(inside jail)
1 row in set (13.20 sec)
note that 13 seconds is far too short for a DNS issue, and that the
time reported is measured *after* login (i.e. after any DNS lookup)
DES
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