Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)
Mike Tancsa
mike at sentex.net
Wed Oct 27 15:46:38 UTC 2010
I did some very simple numbers to compare RELENG_7 and RELENG_8
i386. I netbooted an i5 (650 @ 3.20GHz) box with a single ata disk
that I newfs'd so the track layout is consistent across boots. I did
a couple of very simple userland tests to make sure things are sane
and they appear to be, at least with the apps I used. The only small
difference I found was using sysbench on file io with RELENG_7. If
there are some more synthetic benchmarks you want me to run, let me
know as its easy to boot back and forth between OSes. But cpu and
memory driven tests all seem to be about the same and the disk io
differences are pretty small.
sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G
--file-test-mode=rndrw
RELENG_7, RELENG_8 ATA, RELENG_8 AHCI, RELENG_8 AHCI with suggested
sysctl changes
Test execution summary:
total time: 25.9904s,28.3793s,28.3160s,28.5659s
total number of events: 10000
total time taken by event execution: 12.7917,14.4525,7.9162,5.2872
per-request statistics:
min: 0.01ms,0.01ms,0.01ms,0.01ms
avg: 1.28ms,1.45ms,0.79ms,0.53ms
max: 96.97ms,102.47ms,72.74ms,62.44ms
approx. 95 percentile: 0.78ms,7.52ms,3.06ms,1.42ms
Threads fairness:
events
(avg/stddev):
625.0000/80.21,625.0000/99.54,625.0000/79.20,625.0000/98.04
execution time
(avg/stddev): 0.7995/0.10,0.9033/0.11,0.4948/0.10,0.3304/0.11
Operations performed: 6001 Read, 3999 Write, 12672 Other = 22672 Total
Read 93.766Mb Written 62.484Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (6.0118Mb/sec)
384.76 Requests/sec executed
Operations performed: 5997 Read, 4003 Write, 12800 Other = 22800 Total
Read 93.703Mb Written 62.547Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (5.5058Mb/sec)
352.37 Requests/sec executed
Operations performed: 5998 Read, 4002 Write, 12800 Other = 22800 Total
Read 93.719Mb Written 62.531Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (5.5181Mb/sec)
353.16 Requests/sec executed
Operations performed: 5999 Read, 4001 Write, 12672 Other = 22672 Total
Read 93.734Mb Written 62.516Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (5.4698Mb/sec)
350.07 Requests/sec executed
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=4 run
sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 4
Doing CPU performance benchmark
Threads started!
Done.
Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000
Test execution summary:
total time: 12.8866s,13.2981s
total number of events: 10000
total time taken by event execution: 51.5295,53.1766
per-request statistics:
min: 4.89ms,4.25ms
avg: 5.15ms,5.32ms
max: 5.22ms,5.38ms
approx. 95 percentile: 5.16ms,5.32ms
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 2500.0000/1.73,2500.0000/1.73
execution time (avg/stddev): 12.8824/0.00,13.2942/0.00
sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=8
--memory-total-size=200000000000 run
sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 8
Doing memory operations speed test
Memory block size: 1K
Memory transfer size: 2318M
Memory operations type: write
Memory scope type: global
Threads started!
Done.
Operations performed: 2374516 (574580.71 ops/sec)
2318.86 MB transferred (561.11 MB/sec)
Test execution summary:
total time: 4.1326s,4.0980s
total number of events: 2374516,2374516
total time taken by event execution: 23.6287,22.3643
per-request statistics:
min: 0.00ms,0.00ms
avg: 0.01ms,0.01ms
max: 210.01ms,180.95ms
approx. 95 percentile: 0.00ms,0.00ms
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 296814.5000/21552.12,296814.5000/19049.55
execution time (avg/stddev): 2.9536/0.17,2.7955/0.13
achinetboot# uname -a
FreeBSD achinetboot.sentex.ca 7.3-STABLE FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #0: Wed
Oct 27 08:53:43 EDT
2010
mdtancsa at ich10.sentex.ca:/usr/RELENG7/obj/usr/RELENG7/src/sys/GENERIC i386
achinetboot#
achinetboot# time cp /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso /mnt/
0.000u 0.663s 0:22.19 2.9% 24+1310k 9+1998io 0pf+0w
achinetboot#
achinetboot# time pbzip2 -v FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.1 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[Apr. 17, 2010] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov <nikolov.javor+pbzip2 at gmail.com>
# CPUs: 4
BWT Block Size: 900 KB
File Block Size: 900 KB
Maximum Memory: 100 MB
-------------------------------------------
File #: 1 of 1
Input Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Output Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
Input Size: 261816320 bytes
Compressing data...
Output Size: 92907893 bytes
-------------------------------------------
Wall Clock: 18.624642 seconds
70.096u 1.607s 0:18.70 383.3% 74+1076k 2+709io 75pf+0w
achinetboot#
achinetboot# umount /mnt
achinetboot# mount /dev/ad12 /mnt
achinetboot# cd /mnt
achinetboot# ls -l
total 90802
drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Oct 27 13:11 .snap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 92907893 Oct 27 13:27
FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
achinetboot# time pbzip2 -d FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
24.244u 0.985s 0:06.85 368.1% 75+1083k 724+1998io 0pf+0w
achinetboot#
0(achinetboot)# uname -a
FreeBSD achinetboot.sentex.ca 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Wed
Oct 13 10:50:14 EDT
2010 mdtancsa at ich10.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/pxe i386
0(achinetboot)#
0(achinetboot)# mount /dev/ada0 /mnt
0(achinetboot)# time cp /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso /mnt
0.000u 0.365s 0:22.43 1.6% 16+898k 9+1998io 0pf+0w
0(achinetboot)#
0(achinetboot)# time pbzip2 -v FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.1 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[Apr. 17, 2010] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov <nikolov.javor+pbzip2 at gmail.com>
# CPUs: 4
BWT Block Size: 900 KB
File Block Size: 900 KB
Maximum Memory: 100 MB
-------------------------------------------
File #: 1 of 1
Input Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Output Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
Input Size: 261816320 bytes
Compressing data...
Output Size: 92907893 bytes
-------------------------------------------
Wall Clock: 17.711059 seconds
68.352u 1.442s 0:17.84 391.1% 74+1075k 2+709io 22pf+0w
0(achinetboot)#
0(achinetboot)# umount /mnt
0(achinetboot)# mount /dev/ada0 /mnt
0(achinetboot)# cd /mnt
0(achinetboot)# time pbzip2 -d FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
23.510u 1.037s 0:06.62 370.6% 74+1075k 724+1998io 0pf+0w
0(achinetboot)#
and RELENG_8 using ata
0(achinetboot)# mount /dev/ad12 /mnt
0(achinetboot)# time cp /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso /mnt/
0.000u 0.356s 0:22.43 1.5% 22+1166k 8+1998io 0pf+0w
0(achinetboot)#
0(achinetboot)# time pbzip2 -v FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.1 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[Apr. 17, 2010] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov <nikolov.javor+pbzip2 at gmail.com>
# CPUs: 4
BWT Block Size: 900 KB
File Block Size: 900 KB
Maximum Memory: 100 MB
-------------------------------------------
File #: 1 of 1
Input Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Output Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso.bz2
Input Size: 261816320 bytes
Compressing data...
Output Size: 92907893 bytes
-------------------------------------------
Wall Clock: 17.813195 seconds
68.003u 1.405s 0:17.81 389.6% 74+1074k 0+709io 0pf+0w
0(achinetboot)#
To compile perl 5.10 outside of the ports,
RELENG8 91.94 real 79.85 user 5.75 sys
RELENG7 96.41 real 80.78 user 5.67 sys
#
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Sentex Communications, mike at sentex.net
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