[Swan-dev] test run 80 min on 2 x Xeon E5-2620L(7 years old server)

Andrew Cagney andrew.cagney at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 14:21:52 UTC 2019


On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 03:17, Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org> wrote:
>
> Toumo brought up his old server, running F29, and I am doing a benchmark of
> testrun - time run our current KVM test suite using kvmrunner.
>
> Here are the first results.
> 80 Minutes for a testrun. This is impressive to me.
> Number of tests from master ~748.
>
> |KVM_WORKERS/KVM_PREFIX| run time |
> | 12/28 | 79 Minutes |
> | 8/24 |  101 |
> | 8/28 | 118  |

Are the actual results relatively stable?

I only tested a machine with cores==threads but you've got
cores<threads so you might want to add the results to
https://libreswan.org/wiki/Test_Suite_-_Performance

> I suspect there is still room tune more.  We will see.
>
> So the 7 year old Enterprise Xeon perform better than a new (6 months old)
> basic servers in the same price range.

To be fair, I've not tried to tune the new server, I've been waiting
for the failures to settle down (#include sound of drumming fingers)
(somewhere there's a todo to embed the above numbers in the web
results)

> Specs of the server:
> CPU: 2 x E5-2650L
> RAM : 256GB = 16 * 16GB
> HD :  8*2TB HGST enterprise sata disks
> Motherboard : X9DRi-F
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRi-F.cfm
> Similar systems go for about €1000 - 15000 (refurbished used servers)
>
> However, Tuomo notes it is noisy when I run tests:)
>
> New ONE: about €1200
> CPU: E3-1240v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97469
> Ram : 64GB = 4 * 16 GB = 64 ECC ram
> SSD : 2 * 500 GB Samsung EVO 960 SSD raid1
> Motherboard : Supermicor X11SSL-F
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSL-F.cfm
>
> I hope this motivates people to collect old Xeon servrs they are great
> machines for testrun:)
>
> -antony
>
> PS kernel compiling, 5.0.4, with F29 .config file takes 9 vs 20 minutes.
> I suspect if I upgrade to SSD(from spinning disk) kernel compiling would be
> a bit more faster on the E5 server.
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