Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* PC:

 If you're just fighting IOPS, another compromise might be using a ramdisk,
 and then committing that data to storage every x seconds.

In this case, it's more straightforward to remove the fsync call from
dhcpd.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jimmy Hess:

 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Colton ncol...@allophone.net wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.

 Yes, blame RFC2131's requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that
 any lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
 server is allowed to send the response to the request; a fully
 compliant DHCP server with sufficient traffic is bound by the disk I/O
 rate of underlying storage backing its database.

Come on, group commits are not that difficult to implement.  With them,
you should be able to obtain 8 kHZ leases on a single spindle (assuming
the per-client data is just a few hundred bytes), without violating the
RFC requirement.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article CAAAwwbUDj4yGudeVRohAPywj=39zjmapt0kyjw8wa2szhb9...@mail.gmail.com 
you write:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Colton ncol...@allophone.net wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.

Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
server is allowed to
send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
sufficient traffic
is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.

Well, that's easily fixed (if the architecture of the server allows it):
just queue up but don't send out the replies, then every 10ms sync the
changes to the filesystem and then send out the replies. fsync batching.

Perhaps someone should suggest this to the ISC DHCPD developers.

Mike.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Miquel van 
Smoorenburg wrote:
 Perhaps someone should suggest this to the ISC DHCPD developers.

./configure --enable-delayed-ack

Note, I've never used it, but it does what you describe.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:

 Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for
 September/October/ish timeframes.
 
 Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine.

Or hybrid zfs pools.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread PC
If you're just fighting IOPS, another compromise might be using a ramdisk,
and then committing that data to storage every x seconds.

Yes, you might be breaking the RFC, but depending on what it's used for, you
could probably commit every 3-5 seconds without much penalty and limit your
data loss potential on server failure.

Or as others have said... some sort of SSD/cache solution.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:

  Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for
  September/October/ish timeframes.
 
  Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine.

 Or hybrid zfs pools.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Charles Morris
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:

 Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for
 September/October/ish timeframes.

 Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine.

 Or hybrid zfs pools.


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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Nick Colton
I should have given more information, we do ramdisk with rsync backups and
have been running this way for over 2 years without any issues/lost leases.

Nick Colton
Allo Communications


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Charles Morris cmor...@cs.odu.edu wrote:

 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
  On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
 
  Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for
  September/October/ish timeframes.
 
  Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine.
 
  Or hybrid zfs pools.
 

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Nick Colton
We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
leases per second.


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:08 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:

 220-ish per second sounds roughly like a 1-disk (or 2 mirrored disk)
 IOPS problem, personally...

 But any number of other things could be affecting it.

 The number should be thousands if your disk / filesytem RAM cache /
 server configuration aren't inadequate...

 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote:
  The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
  handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
  was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
  that could scale much better?
 
  Where do you get that ISC DHCPD only handles 200 DHCPDISCOVER / 20
 DHCPRENEW
  requests?That doesn't sound right.   So I wonder what are you
 measuring?
 
  Is this a number of answers per second your implementation of ISC
  DHCPD is providing successfully?
  There are architectural facts about any environment besides what
  software is performing the DHCP task.
 
  How many  I/Os  + fsync()'s  per second can this DHCP server handle
  that does only 20 renews?
 
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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey,

 The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
 handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
 was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
 that could scale much better?

You are doing something wrong:

* turn off ping-check
* use proper raid controller with battery backup (because isc dhcpd does fsync 
every time it writes to dhcpd.leases)
* ...
* profit

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Colton ncol...@allophone.net wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.

Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
server is allowed to
send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
sufficient traffic
is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.

I do not recommend use of a RAMDISK;  it's safer to bend the rule than break it
entirely;   a safer way is probably to use a storage system on a battery-backed
NVRAM cache  that you configure to ignore SYNC() and lie to the DHCP server
application,  allowing the storage system to aggregate the I/O.


Of course,  committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when the
replacement comes up, or the  DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.

As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments, unless you:
(a) Have an extremely short max lease duration  (which can increase
DHCP server load), or
(b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP server
performance and is not fool proof.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Keen
We've recently setup ISC DHCPd with failover for lease information, and 
LDAP as a configuration source (mostly because of our need for 
dynamically adding dhcp reservations for cable modems, etc) -- we don't 
have any performance issues thus far, but I'd imagine in a failover 
environment, it might be safe to consider a ramdisk for leases.  
Obvoiusly breaks RFC2131, but...

Walter Keen
Network Engineer
Rainier Connect

(P) 360-832-4024
(C) 253-302-0194


On 07/20/2011 03:28 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Coltonncol...@allophone.net  wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.
 Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
 lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
 server is allowed to
 send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
 sufficient traffic
 is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.

 I do not recommend use of a RAMDISK;  it's safer to bend the rule than break 
 it
 entirely;   a safer way is probably to use a storage system on a 
 battery-backed
 NVRAM cache  that you configure to ignore SYNC() and lie to the DHCP server
 application,  allowing the storage system to aggregate the I/O.


 Of course,  committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
 The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
 will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when the
 replacement comes up, or the  DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.

 As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments, unless you:
 (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration  (which can increase
 DHCP server load), or
 (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP server
 performance and is not fool proof.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli

On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Walter Keen wrote:

 We've recently setup ISC DHCPd with failover for lease information, and 
 LDAP as a configuration source (mostly because of our need for 
 dynamically adding dhcp reservations for cable modems, etc) -- we don't 
 have any performance issues thus far, but I'd imagine in a failover 
 environment, it might be safe to consider a ramdisk for leases.  
 Obvoiusly breaks RFC2131, but...

Use an ssd, all the cool kids with monolithic databases and tpc-c style 
workloads are doing it and since your storage requirements are negligible it 
ought to be fairly cheap.

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm

Bandwidth Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s
Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s 
Read latency 75 microseconds I/O Per Second (IOPS) 
Random 4KB Reads: 35,000 IOPS
Random 4KB Writes: 3,300 IOP

and that's for just one disk.

 Walter Keen
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 (C) 253-302-0194
 
 
 On 07/20/2011 03:28 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Coltonncol...@allophone.net  wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.
 Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
 lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
 server is allowed to
 send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
 sufficient traffic
 is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.
 
 I do not recommend use of a RAMDISK;  it's safer to bend the rule than break 
 it
 entirely;   a safer way is probably to use a storage system on a 
 battery-backed
 NVRAM cache  that you configure to ignore SYNC() and lie to the DHCP server
 application,  allowing the storage system to aggregate the I/O.
 
 
 Of course,  committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
 The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
 will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when the
 replacement comes up, or the  DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.
 
 As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments, unless you:
 (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration  (which can increase
 DHCP server load), or
 (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP server
 performance and is not fool proof.
 
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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread George Herbert
Good luck buying X25-Es; they're out of production and all gone from
supply chain.  Replacement 710 and 720 models are ETA in late August
at the moment.

Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for
September/October/ish timeframes.

Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine.


-george

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote:

 On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Walter Keen wrote:

 We've recently setup ISC DHCPd with failover for lease information, and
 LDAP as a configuration source (mostly because of our need for
 dynamically adding dhcp reservations for cable modems, etc) -- we don't
 have any performance issues thus far, but I'd imagine in a failover
 environment, it might be safe to consider a ramdisk for leases.
 Obvoiusly breaks RFC2131, but...

 Use an ssd, all the cool kids with monolithic databases and tpc-c style 
 workloads are doing it and since your storage requirements are negligible it 
 ought to be fairly cheap.

 http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm

 Bandwidth Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s
 Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s
 Read latency 75 microseconds I/O Per Second (IOPS)
 Random 4KB Reads: 35,000 IOPS
 Random 4KB Writes: 3,300 IOP

 and that's for just one disk.

 Walter Keen
 Network Engineer
 Rainier Connect

 (P) 360-832-4024
 (C) 253-302-0194


 On 07/20/2011 03:28 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Coltonncol...@allophone.net  wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.
 Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
 lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
 server is allowed to
 send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
 sufficient traffic
 is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.

 I do not recommend use of a RAMDISK;  it's safer to bend the rule than 
 break it
 entirely;   a safer way is probably to use a storage system on a 
 battery-backed
 NVRAM cache  that you configure to ignore SYNC() and lie to the DHCP server
 application,  allowing the storage system to aggregate the I/O.


 Of course,  committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
 The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
 will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when the
 replacement comes up, or the  DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.

 As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments, unless 
 you:
 (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration  (which can increase
 DHCP server load), or
 (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP 
 server
 performance and is not fool proof.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message -
 From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com

 Of course, committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
 The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
 will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when
 the replacement comes up, or the DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.
 
 As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments,
 unless you:
 (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration (which can increase
 DHCP server load), or
 (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP
 server performance and is not fool proof.

I think a lot of this depends on the target audience of your server.

It sounds like he's in a commercial WAN environment, which of course is what 
those rules were written for.  But I can't tell you how many service calls I
have to take because of address conflicts on home LANs behind consumer
routers... which don't generally cache the assignments at all, IME.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Andrews

In message 21226672.1947.1311207580967.javamail.r...@benjamin.baylink.com, 
Jay Ashworth writes:
 - Original Message -
  From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com
 
  Of course, committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
  The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
  will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when
  the replacement comes up, or the DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.
  
  As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments,
  unless you:
  (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration (which can increase
  DHCP server load), or
  (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP
  server performance and is not fool proof.
 
 I think a lot of this depends on the target audience of your server.
 
 It sounds like he's in a commercial WAN environment, which of course is what 
 those rules were written for.  But I can't tell you how many service calls I
 have to take because of address conflicts on home LANs behind consumer
 routers... which don't generally cache the assignments at all, IME.

What I hate is my cable provider re-numbering without winding down
the lease time first.  Waking up in the morning to a lease that say
its still got 18+ hours to go and no net shouldn't happen.  If the
DHCP server has said the address is good for 24 hours it should be
good for 24 hours.

I know first level support will say to reboot, which forces a renew
which fails, but one shouldn't have to reboot for a renumber event.
Run the old and new spaces in parallel for 24 hours.

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Owen DeLong
SSDs can be a good alternative these days as well. Some of them have gotten
to be quite fast. Sure, you'll have to replace them more often than spinning 
media,
but, the write times can be quite a bit better.

Owen

On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Colton ncol...@allophone.net wrote:
 We were seeing similar issues with low leases, moved the dhcpd.leases file
 to a ramdisk and went from ~200 leases per second to something like 8,000
 leases per second.
 
 Yes, blame RFC2131's  requirement that a DHCP server is to ensure that any
 lease is committed to persistent storage, strictly before a DHCP
 server is allowed to
 send the response to the request;   a fully compliant DHCP server with
 sufficient traffic
 is bound by the disk I/O rate  of underlying storage backing its database.
 
 I do not recommend use of a RAMDISK;  it's safer to bend the rule than break 
 it
 entirely;   a safer way is probably to use a storage system on a 
 battery-backed
 NVRAM cache  that you configure to ignore SYNC() and lie to the DHCP server
 application,  allowing the storage system to aggregate the I/O.
 
 
 Of course,  committing to a RAMDISK tricks the DHCP server software.
 The danger is that if your DHCP server suffers an untimely reboot, you
 will have no transactionally safe record of the leases issued, when the
 replacement comes up, or the  DHCP server completes its reboot cycle.
 
 As a result, you can generate conflicting IP address assignments, unless you:
 (a) Have an extremely short max lease duration  (which can increase
 DHCP server load), or
 (b) Have a policy of pinging before assigning an IP, which limits DHCP server
 performance and is not fool proof.
 
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high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-19 Thread Rogelio
The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
that could scale much better?

(Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like Nominum, but
I know that's asking for much.)

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote:
 The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
 handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
 was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
 that could scale much better?

Where do you get that ISC DHCPD only handles 200 DHCPDISCOVER / 20 DHCPRENEW
requests?That doesn't sound right.   So I wonder what are you measuring?

Is this a number of answers per second your implementation of ISC
DHCPD is providing successfully?
There are architectural facts about any environment besides what
software is performing the DHCP task.

How many  I/Os  + fsync()'s  per second can this DHCP server handle
that does only 20 renews?

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Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-19 Thread George Herbert
220-ish per second sounds roughly like a 1-disk (or 2 mirrored disk)
IOPS problem, personally...

But any number of other things could be affecting it.

The number should be thousands if your disk / filesytem RAM cache /
server configuration aren't inadequate...

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote:
 The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
 handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
 was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
 that could scale much better?

 Where do you get that ISC DHCPD only handles 200 DHCPDISCOVER / 20 DHCPRENEW
 requests?    That doesn't sound right.   So I wonder what are you measuring?

 Is this a number of answers per second your implementation of ISC
 DHCPD is providing successfully?
 There are architectural facts about any environment besides what
 software is performing the DHCP task.

 How many  I/Os  + fsync()'s  per second can this DHCP server handle
 that does only 20 renews?

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