Re: Expected haproxy performance inside a VMWare instance

From: Nate Carlson <natecars#natecarlson.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:10:40 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, lists wrote:
> I Just wanted to check that my test results make sense.
>
> When I run haproxy in cookie insert mode on dual core celeron hardware
> and do an apache bench I get about 10-15% CPU load for 100,000 trans in
> 80 seconds.
>
> But on a VMware instance (similar CPU) I get 90% CPU load for 100,000
> trans in 90 seconds. If I lower the concurrency from 5 to 1 I get 35%
> CPU
>
> Is this an expected result? same test results on 64bit and 32bit
> VMs/hardware Any performance advise on VM platform?

Just as a data note, I'm running HAProxy on a VM under Xen OSS, with 2 VCPU's (Xeon 5430).. our peak load so far was around 800 connections/s, with cpu load of less than 10%. (This machine is also acting as an iptables firewall with connection tracking for the backends.)

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Received on 2008/07/15 18:10