RE: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing

[Somnath Roy <Somnath.Roy@sandisk.com>]

Mark,
Thanks for verifying this. Nice report !
Since there is a big difference in memory consumption with jemalloc, I would say a recovery performance data or client performance data during recovery would be helpful.

Thanks & Regards
Somnath

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From: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:46 PM
To: ceph-devel
Subject: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing

Hi Everyone,

One of the goals at the Ceph Hackathon last week was to examine how to improve Ceph Small IO performance.  Jian Zhang presented findings showing a dramatic improvement in small random IO performance when Ceph is used with jemalloc.  His results build upon Sandisk's original findings that the default thread cache values are a major bottleneck in TCMalloc 2.1.  To further verify these results, we sat down at the Hackathon and configured the new performance test cluster that Intel generously donated to the Ceph community laboratory to run through a variety of tests with different memory allocator configurations.  I've since written the results of those tests up in pdf form for folks who are interested.

The results are located here:

http://nhm.ceph.com/hackathon/Ceph_Hackathon_Memory_Allocator_Testing.pdf

I want to be clear that many other folks have done the heavy lifting here.  These results are simply a validation of the many tests that other folks have already done.  Many thanks to Sandisk and others for figuring this out as it's a pretty big deal!

Side note:  Very little tuning other than swapping the memory allocator and a couple of quick and dirty ceph tunables were set during these tests. It's quite possible that higher IOPS will be achieved as we really start digging into the cluster and learning what the bottlenecks are.

Thanks,
Mark
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