RE: VM benchmarks

2010-10-29 Thread Mike Hoffs
Hi Ariel, If u want i can do some tests on Intel modular server with empty vtrak storage on vmware virtualization platform. Met een vriendelijke groet, Mike Hoffs

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-29 Thread Ariel
On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Cyril Bonté wrote: > I reproduced nearly the same environment as you described and could not > reproduce this latency (only 1 nginx instance in my case). First, I want to say thank you for your tests! I learned a lot from seeing what you did. The VirtualBox server

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-28 Thread Cyril Bonté
Le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 15:58:55, Ariel a écrit : > Hi Cyril, > My test wasn't designed to look at higher load averages (many users at > once) since the problem I was looking at was just increased latency for > all requests. You mean that with only 1 request at a time through haproxy you obtain a

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-28 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:10:32AM +, Angelo Höngens wrote: > I'm wondering what the difference would be between the standard slow e1000 > virtual network card and the fast paravirtualized vmxnet3 virtual network > card. In theory, the latter one should be much, much faster.. We've tested t

RE: VM benchmarks

2010-10-28 Thread Angelo Höngens
Les Stroud [mailto:l...@lesstroud.com] > Sent: woensdag 27 oktober 2010 21:55 > To: Ariel > Cc: haproxy > Subject: Re: VM benchmarks > > Check out this thread I had earlier in the month on the same topic: > http://www.formilux.org/archives/haproxy/1010/3910.html > > B

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-27 Thread Cyril Bonté
Hi Ariel, Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 16:58:19, Ariel a écrit : > It's really strange. I notice a huge improvement in non-virtualized > environments as well. > > I modeled my network on all old laptops (like sub-500mhz era) using haproxy > pointed to two backend nginx servers and I get 10-30ms r

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-27 Thread Les Stroud
Check out this thread I had earlier in the month on the same topic: http://www.formilux.org/archives/haproxy/1010/3910.html Bottom line: vmware will slow down your upper level transaction limit by a significant amount (like an order of maginitude). The software drivers underneath the network s

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-26 Thread Hank A. Paulson
I don't have benchmarks, but have sites running haproxy on Xen VMs with apache on Xen VMs and can pump 120 Mbps and 80 million hits a day through one haproxy VM and that is with haproxy doing rsysloging of all requests to 2 remote rsyslog servers on top of the serving of requests with some layer

RE: VM benchmarks

2010-10-26 Thread Simon Green - Centric IT Ltd
n this one... -Original Message- From: Daniel Storjordet [mailto:dan...@desti.no] Sent: 26 October 2010 22:00 To: Ariel; haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Re: VM benchmarks We just moved HAProxy from ESXi servers into two dedicated Atom servers. In the first setup the HAProxy innstallations balanced two

Re: VM benchmarks

2010-10-26 Thread Daniel Storjordet
We just moved HAProxy from ESXi servers into two dedicated Atom servers. In the first setup the HAProxy innstallations balanced two webservers in the same ESXi enviorment. The web access times for this config was inbetween 120-150ms (Connect, Request, Download). In the new config the dedicat

VM benchmarks

2010-10-26 Thread Ariel
Does anyone know of studies done comparing haproxy on dedicated hardware vs virtual machine? Or perhaps some virtual machine specific considerations? -a