1:44 p.m.
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Xose Vazquez
Perez<xose.vazquez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In Apache Benchmark:
> "Ubuntu was able to sustain more than 58% more requests per second than Fedora
11"
>
>
<http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora11_ubuntu904...
Why did you cherry pick the bad news instead of the summary?
I am not interested when Fedora is doing right.
The question becomes what is significantly different in the Apache
test? Is the Apache test essentially a network i/o test? What is
significantly different here that would not end up being tracked to an
upstream kernel networking stack regression? Is the apache performance
collatoral damage from selinux related latency? Something else in
userspace slowing Apache down. I've no idea. I can't imagine its
compiler related options on the Apache binaries.
All "Phoronix Test Suite"[1] tests run in *local* host. NO net.
Basically the "apache" test do:
download http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz
and http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/benchmark-files/apache-ab-test-files-1...
then compile apache ; exec it and run ab:
$ ab -n 500000 -c 100 http://localhost:8088/test.html
get more info doing "find . | grep apache" inside phoronix-test-suite dir
To clone Phoronix apache test:
$ wget
http://www.phoronix.net/downloads/phoronix-test-suite/releases/developmen...
$ tar xvf phoronix-test-suite-2.0.0a3.tar.gz
$ cd phoronix-test-suite
$ ./phoronix-test-suite install apache
$ ./phoronix-test-suite run apache
wait...
[1] http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/
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2:31 p.m.
New subject: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance
Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
All "Phoronix Test Suite"[1] tests run in *local* host. NO net.
Basically the "apache" test do:
download http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz
and http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/benchmark-files/apache-ab-test-files-1...
then compile apache ; exec it and run ab:
$ ab -n 500000 -c 100 http://localhost:8088/test.html
So they are grabbing some upstream vanilla version of apache, building
-it- and benchmarking -it- on ubuntu and f11 and comparing the results.
I don't know much about apache but I bet a default ./configure winds up
with different builds depending on the build environment, which in this
case is probably dictated by whatever the default generic OS intall
contains.
And this is useful how? Geez.
Me, I'd rather know how -Fedora's- httpd fares against -Ubuntu's- httpd,
but maybe I'm just nuts.
-Eric
3:27 p.m.
New subject: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Xose Vazquez
Perez<xose.vazquez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
then compile apache ; exec it and run ab:
$ ab -n 500000 -c 100 http://localhost:8088/test.html
So did they use the phoronix-test-suite that is packaged as part of
fedora and used fedora packaged apache binaries? Or did they build
their own local versions of everything outside of the Fedora build
system.
Knowing if they are testing Fedora built and packaged apache matters a
lot in terms of interpretation.
-jef
3:31 p.m.
New subject: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Xose Vazquez
Perez<xose.vazquez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> then compile apache ; exec it and run ab:
> $ ab -n 500000 -c 100 http://localhost:8088/test.html
So did they use the phoronix-test-suite that is packaged as part of
fedora and used fedora packaged apache binaries? Or did they build
their own local versions of everything outside of the Fedora build
system.
They did not test Fedora or Ubuntu's httpd for the httpd test.
They built and ran their own httpd from upstream, with a default
./configure; make; make install.
If nothing else, the config.log from both builds would be interesting to
compare.
Knowing if they are testing Fedora built and packaged apache matters
a
lot in terms of interpretation.
wait it's not obvious from the article & graph? :)
-Eric
-jef
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