Re: VM vs bare metal and threading

2012-01-17 Thread Matt Banks
when you run the test, otherwise you'll never get acceptable numbers (which is the height of virtualization) ! Regards, Willy -Original Message- From: Matt Banks [mailto:mattba...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:40 PM To: haproxy@formilux.org Subject: VM vs bare

Re: VM vs bare metal and threading

2012-01-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Matt, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:10:49PM -0700, Matt Banks wrote: Willy, As always, you were spot on. The VSphere 5/No swap/disable SMP build of Gentoo (that Vsphere thinks is RHEL so we can use the vmxnet driver) we have now is basically running on par with the bare metal one.

VM vs bare metal and threading

2012-01-13 Thread Matt Banks
All, I'm not sure what the issue is here, but I wanted to know if there was an easy explanation for this. We've been doing some load testing of HAProxy and have found the following: HAProxy (both 1.4.15 and 1.4.19 builds) running under Gentoo in a 2 vCPU VM (Vsphere 4.x) running on a box with

RE: VM vs bare metal and threading

2012-01-13 Thread John Lauro
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:40 PM To: haproxy@formilux.org Subject: VM vs bare metal and threading All, I'm not sure what the issue is here, but I wanted to know if there was an easy explanation for this. We've been doing some load testing of HAProxy and have found