From owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Thu Nov 12 06:40:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA569A2CAB1 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 06:40:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from araujobsdport@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x22d.google.com (mail-ob0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 781991ADB; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 06:40:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from araujobsdport@gmail.com) Received: by obdgf3 with SMTP id gf3so39909453obd.3; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:40:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3xYlDQFPMA1BUB4mFVEZAVxauLSHCpvM0rJRbpXwxEU=; b=nL2ocA9QTqSs6OU8yDUQtRXbDFNg/iiELYeAkpmzMYc0tZuVLlROmqvYUqlS3ZgdV1 44vppUvgW++q7brbxElPp0LKgKIBgf4A57+rSoqn+ZOkFvRR+e2VuPVOUPH2HckRiRz7 IIMTjEY8vKlxWhkAucUAEVx7wRSPevNN/YJzgK86m6MJjivs4/Bpv5/B3DLFdJ6FCaGJ j2iCrF+kPGu+ATMX44x6E+OVw/2f0G1yolCQXBKn6cop1JRX+gV8Yeu/yv9M0sdW97by paSrrCFNEsScIaznXcmIygzd1FXPZZSjh7AswELc6kQa3Rxqtq31jDHyERLa7t65HW3k sSag== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.44.228 with SMTP id h4mr7514221oem.64.1447310435746; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.250.227 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:40:35 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: araujo@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <564433F2.2050601@freebsd.org> References: <8B37FEDC-218A-4071-8CB7-48361BB72B1D@langille.org> <14A0EA61-6545-42BB-910E-62C752D4396C@langille.org> <564433F2.2050601@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:40:35 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Measuring ZFS configuration differences From: Marcelo Araujo To: Allan Jude Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 06:40:36 -0000 2015-11-12 14:38 GMT+08:00 Allan Jude : > On 2015-11-12 01:30, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > > 2015-11-12 6:34 GMT+08:00 Dan Langille : > > > >> On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > >>> > >>> Following up on the discussions during EuroBSDCon 2015 (Stockholm) > >> during the FreeBSD Developer > >>> Summit regarding various ZFS configuration settings, I write to start > >> our implementation phase now that some > >>> usual suspects have joined the list. > >>> > >>> re https://wiki.freebsd.org/201510DevSummit/Performance > >>> > >>> I think the first order of business is granting access rights to the > >> server (varm) in question: > >>> > >>> http://dan.langille.org/2015/07/19/varm/ > >>> > >>> During the workshop, mention was made of serial access. I can arrang= e > >> that. > >>> > >>> The server has IPMI, however, my first thought: > >>> > >>> 1 - connect a USB-serial cable to varm & link that to another server = in > >> my rack. > >> > >> Marcelo: At EuroBSDCon, was it you who mentioned a particular > >> configuration for the test machine which made > >> it easy to configure and run tests? Was it PXE booting or something? > >> > >>> 2 - create a jail in that server and give it access to that serial > >> connection > >>> 3 - redirect incoming port XYZ to that jail via a public-key-only ssh > >> connection > >>> 4 - give people access > >>> > >>> Any suggestions? > >> > >> =E2=80=94 > >> Dan Langille > >> http://langille.org/ > >> > >> > > Hello Dan, > > > > Yes, was me :) > > > > I mention about zopkio test framework. > > I gave a presentation last weekend at PyCon Hong Kong about it. > > > > Here is my slides: > > > http://www.slideshare.net/araujobsd/functional-and-scale-performance-test= s-using-zopkio > > > > The good of Zopkio is, we can write tests at once and run it as much as > we > > want in different machines. Also Zopkio depends of Naarad, that can > parse a > > CSV file and create metrics and SLA over those metrics, plot graphs and > so > > on. Pretty nice tool!!! > > > > I'm wondering if we could start to test something and maybe show it at > > AsiaBSDCon and BSDCon(Canada) next year? What do you think? > > What I need right now would be a list of tests that we want to perform = as > > well as what parameters we would like to take as metrics to compare. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Would this work for testing other things, like SSH performance? I am > looking at doing some SSH + HPN tests to prove that it is worth keeping. > > -- > Allan Jude > > It would depends what kind of performance you want to test! If the metrics you can output to a CSV file, the answer would be yes, it can! Best, --=20 --=20 Marcelo Araujo (__)araujo@FreeBSD.org \\\'',)http://www.FreeBSD.org \/ \ ^ Power To Server. .\. /_)