Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, ivo...@gmail.com wrote: As for the original thread topic: I've communicated with the OP and it appears his method of benchmarking had an error so the problems that appear in his post are bogus. It is not quite true that the "method" is bogus, there just seems to be a huge difference bet

Re: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-13 Thread ivoras
On Feb 13, 2009 8:27pm, Josh Paetzel wrote: In my limited experience with VMWare linux seems to have near bare metal disk performance. FreeBSD seems to incur a significant performance penalty. For instance on my laptop, running OSX and VMWare Fusion, FreeBSd virtual machines can't saturate

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: As previously demonstrated by me and others, Linux usually has significantly better file system performance in the non-virtualized case, so the difference could be simply increased by the virtualization. In my limited experience with VMWare l

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-11 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/2/11 Antony Mawer : > How would one go about gathering data on such a scenario to help improve > this? We were planning a project involving VMware deployments with FreeBSD > 7.1 systems in the near future, but if performance is that bad it is likely > to be a show stopper. I have now tested

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Antony Mawer wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: >>> Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: (However, just to give you an idea I attached the basic 5.1.2 unixbench outputs (the CPU info for FreeBSD is "fake", since unixbench does a cat /proc/cpuinfo, so I removed the /proc/ pa

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Antony Mawer
Ivan Voras wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: (However, just to give you an idea I attached the basic 5.1.2 unixbench outputs (the CPU info for FreeBSD is "fake", since unixbench does a cat /proc/cpuinfo, so I removed the /proc/ part and copied the output under linux to

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: >> (However, just to give you an idea I attached the basic 5.1.2 >> unixbench outputs (the CPU info for FreeBSD is "fake", since unixbench >> does a cat /proc/cpuinfo, so I removed the /proc/ part and copied the >> output under linux to the "pro

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: (However, just to give you an idea I attached the basic 5.1.2 unixbench outputs (the CPU info for FreeBSD is "fake", since unixbench does a cat /proc/cpuinfo, so I removed the /proc/ part and copied the output under linux to the "procinfo" file.) Of course I forgot t

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Ivan Voras wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi, [snip] 1 2 4 freebsd 12.0009 13.6348 12.9402 (MB/s) linux 376.145 651.314 634.649 (MB/s) Both virtual machi

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > Hi, > > I want to deploy a production FreeBSD web site (database cluster, apache > cluster, ip failover using carp, etc.), however I'm experiencing painful > disk I/O throughput problems which currently does not make the above > project viable. I've done some rudimentar

FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-10 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I want to deploy a production FreeBSD web site (database cluster, apache cluster, ip failover using carp, etc.), however I'm experiencing painful disk I/O throughput problems which currently does not make the above project viable. I've done some rudimentary benchmarking of two identically