On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:35 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
>
> Running my logdev tools from:
> http://www.kihontech.com/logdev/logdev_tools_0.3.0.tar.bz2
>
> ./logread /dev/logdev > 1000HZ.out # with 1000HZ
> ./logread /dev/logdev > 100HZ.out # with 100HZ
>
> These files can be found at:
> http://www.kihontech.com/tests/hz_times/
>
> These show all the times that a context switch took place. This is a
> ring buffer, so it only captured the last 30 some seconds of the test.
> But that should be good enough.
>
> with my analyze.pl script (also supplied at the website) I ran:
>
> ./analyze.pl 1000HZ.out > 1000HZ.txt
> and again for 100HZ.
>
> This calculates the times between the context switches and at the end
> produces an average.
>
> (all times are in seconds)
>
> For 100HZ:
>
> [54543.530810] CPU:0 (testme:2539) -->> (find:2550)
> diff: 0.000213
> [54543.546730] CPU:0 (find:2550) -->> (testme:2539)
> diff: 0.015920
> count: 28974 total: 38.384180
> average: 0.001325
The above 100HZ test is invalid. As shown in the times, it was run
after 54000 some seconds, which means that the file system was probably
already cached. So I did fresh reboots and ran the test shortly after
bootup.
The test results are again at http://www.kihontech.com/tests/hz_times/
but they are all with a *_2.* in the name.
Here are the times that were run for each test (100HZ vs 1000HZ and
preempt vs nopreempt).
1000HZ preempt:
Thu Nov 10 18:05:11 EST 2005
Thu Nov 10 18:13:01 EST 2005
real 7m49.741s
user 0m46.464s
sys 4m41.524s
1000HZ nopreempt:
Thu Nov 10 22:17:33 EST 2005
Thu Nov 10 22:25:15 EST 2005
real 7m42.339s
user 0m47.156s
sys 4m33.205s
100HZ preempt:
# time ./testme
Thu Nov 10 17:40:29 EST 2005
Thu Nov 10 17:48:12 EST 2005
real 7m42.418s
user 0m46.190s
sys 4m40.350s
100HZ nopreempt:
Thu Nov 10 17:52:15 EST 2005
Thu Nov 10 17:59:56 EST 2005
real 7m40.976s
user 0m44.840s
sys 4m34.510s
This seems to show that 100HZ with no preemption was the fastest, but
the times are too close, so it is of a difference of ~0.2% which is well
in the margin of error. So this test really doesn't show much benefit
between the settings.
Tomorrow, I'll see if I can make a test that serves up web pages, and
see if that will show the benefits for servers and the settings for HZ
and preemption.
-- Steve
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