From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
To: "Eric Dumazet" <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Anton Blanchard" <anton@samba.org>,
"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
"Lorenzo Allegrucci" <l_allegrucci@yahoo.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Suparna Bhattacharya" <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
"Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:09:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29495f1d0703131809i6f76e409q2c505a33f0b23a8d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F74917.40806@cosmosbay.com>
On 3/13/07, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> Nish Aravamudan a écrit :
> > On 3/12/07, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Nick,
> >>
> >> > Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help
> >> look
> >> > at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler
> >> issue,
> >> > you might be able to do something better).
> >>
> >> I took a look at this today and figured Id document it:
> >>
> >> http://ozlabs.org/~anton/linux/sysbench/
> >>
> >> Bottom line: it looks like issues in the glibc malloc library, replacing
> >> it with the google malloc library fixes the negative scaling:
> >>
> >> # apt-get install libgoogle-perftools0
> >> # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtcmalloc.so /usr/sbin/mysqld
> >
> > Quick datapoint, still collecting data and trying to verify it's
> > always the case: on my 8-way Xeon, I'm actually seeing *much* worse
> > performance with libtcmalloc.so compared to mainline. Am generating
> > graphs and such still, but maybe someone else with x86_64 hardware
> > could try the google PRELOAD and see if it helps/hurts (to rule out
> > tester stupidity)?
>
> I wish I had a 8-way test platform :)
>
> Anyway, could you post some oprofile results ?
Hopefully soon -- want to still make sure I'm not doing something
dumb. Am also hoping to get some of the gdb backtraces like Anton had.
Thanks,
Nish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 17:44 SMP performance degradation with sysbench Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-25 23:46 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-26 13:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-26 13:41 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-26 22:04 ` Pete Harlan
2007-02-26 22:36 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-27 0:32 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27 0:43 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 4:03 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27 4:31 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 8:14 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-02-27 14:02 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 14:56 ` Paulo Marques
2007-02-27 20:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-28 2:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 2:52 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-01 0:20 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-27 19:05 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-03-01 16:57 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-28 1:27 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-28 2:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-28 2:51 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-12 22:00 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-13 5:11 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 9:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 11:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 11:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 12:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 12:27 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-03-13 12:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14 23:33 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-03-20 2:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-04-02 2:59 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-03-13 6:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14 0:36 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-14 1:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14 1:09 ` Nish Aravamudan [this message]
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2007-02-28 1:32 ` Hiro Yoshioka
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