Archive for the 'performance' Category

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

russian ISP/network operators community forum: a post with live stats from a system system that routes ~ 10G/1.9Mpps of live traffic on Intel X520-2 82559EB card, 2 x Xeon E5620

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Friday, May 6th, 2011

HA Proxy [synthetic] benchmarks on 10Gbit traffic. Linux network stack is the bottle neck here, not HAProxy, i.e. you can 10G line rate on big frames and few connections.

HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Friday, May 6th, 2011

InnoDB Flushing: Theory and solutions – MySQL Performance Blog

Friday, April 29th, 2011

blog posts that describes how MySQL InnoDB flushes data to disk (also see bgwriter, checkpoint_* parameters in PostgreSQL)

MySQL Benchmarks – MySQL 5.0.92 vs 5.1.55 vs 5.5.10 vs Percona 5.1.55 vs Percona 5.5.8 vs MariaDB 5.2.5 | vbtechsupport.com

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cor…

Real-World Web Application Benchmarking | Facebook

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Facebook has build custom web-app testing framework to test server performance. Read it, especially the section on why “standard” SPECxxx benchmarks are not a good measure of anything. Also, ready about performance-per-watt, as this is really import…

Ultra-Large-Scale-Sites / Walter Kriha, Scalability and Availability Aspects [application/pdf]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

a draft of the book “Scalability and Availability Aspects” by Walter Kriha. Many up-to-date info on theory and practice of building scalable high-loaded web/internet systems

PacketShader – GPU-accelerated Software Router

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf

Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…

How fast MOR can perform – KolmiSoft Wiki

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

asterisk performance tests done by Kolmesoft (manufacturer of voiop soft switch based on asterisk). ~ 500-600 stimult. calls,
in all cases seems to be limited by external factors (network, mysql on the same machi…