FC4 test (x86_64) poor performance

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun May 29 22:44:12 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:37:12PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
 > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:11 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:32:56AM -0400, Vlad wrote:
 > >  > Hello,
 > >  > 
 > >  > I've ran a series of tests on FC4 x86_64 and FC3 x86_64. Found that
 > >  > the performance is quite poor under FC4 (Athlon64 on nForce 4 Ultra).
 > >  > 
 > >  > I've compiled apache+php and measured max requests per second (rps) of
 > >  > a simple php script (output of phpinfo(); php_info(INFO_MODULES)) with
 > >  > the apache's 'ab' application. The maximum RPS I managed for FC4 is
 > >  > 440 while FC3 showed up to 730. Network is not the issue cause I did
 > >  > measurement via lo0.
 > >  > 
 > >  > It's the same server and I've ran yum update before tests in both
 > >  > cases. Any ideas?
 > > 
 > > If you are running a kernel earlier than revision 2.6.11-1.1355, it'll
 > > have extra debugging enabled which will impact memory allocations.
 > > 
 > > Are you running the latest rawhide ?
 > > 
 > Dave:
 > 
 > Should those of us running off of rawhide add anything extra to our bug
 > reports due to this extra debugging?

Either I've misinterpreted your question, or you misinterpreted my
previous mail.  The current kernels have the debugging disabled.

		Dave




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