Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:31:41 -0800 From: Rick Jones <rick_jones2@hp.com> To: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: initial netperf tests on rx2600 Message-ID: <3E6401FD.E2B384E3@hp.com>
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Folks -
Thank's to Marcel's fixing of the EFI trap problem, and his installing
bits for me :) I was able to run a first pass at netperf aggregate
TCP_RR perf under FreeBSD 5.0 on the rx2600
There are something like four OSes one can boot on IPF/Itanium2 at the
moment - HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (OpenVMS is probably not
toooo far behind, but those four are the ones "shipping" today). I am
able to include figures for three of the four here.
Aggregate, single-byte, netperf TCP_RR results
Truncated to the Nearest 100 Transactions per Second
Using Core GbE (rx2600)
Two-CPUs present, One Enabled
Concurrent System
sut220 sut220 sut220
Streams rx2600 rx2600 rx2600
HP-UX 11.22 RH AW 2.1 FreeBSD 5.0
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | 10900 7600 6700
2 | 20900 11900 13500
4 | 38300 19400 20800
8 | 41800 32600 27300
16 | 44800 37800 48300
32 | 45100 83200 48100
40 | 45000 83000 48400
48 | 80500
The "load generators" here were a pair of HP rp2470's, each with 2, 750
MHz PA-8700 CPUs, and using an add-on GbE NIC based on the tg3 core.
The tests ultimately take the SUT (System Under Test) to 100% CPU
utilization.
All NIC settings are at their defaults. I know how to tweak coalescing
parms under UX, but not FreeBSD or Linux :)
It seems clear that both Linux and FreeBSD have some sort of heuristic
that kicks-in to alter some settings as load increases.
happy benchmarking,
rick jones
BTW, what would be the "best" way for netperf to obtain programatic CPU
utilization figures. At present, it measures CPU util by taking "idle
rates" before a test and comparing them with during a test. What api
might netperf call to retrieve that sort of data?
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