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hzqbbc is currently offline  hzqbbc
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Registered: November 2009
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Embarassed This post is very old ( May 2007 ) but we still encounter the performance problem.

Unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2 result different from 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 and 2.6.18-128.el5 (standard RHEL5 kernel), the difference is huge.

After searching openvz forum, i think i'm closing to the answer, but not sure, the huge perf loss may due to openvz UBC accounting.

So my question is *WHEN* openvz dev team will fix this problem? dev said he would release new kernel to archive better perf but i try the latest 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 (stab064.7) and got no improvement.

My bench result:

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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2, 8 threads)
System -- Linux vz 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                      65672880   3609080  58673952   6% /


End Benchmark Run: Mon Nov  2 06:18:21 CST 2009
 06:18:21 up 13 min,  2 users,  load average: 31.71, 12.44, 5.31


                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7 36719630.6      974.6
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1298.6      156.3
Execl Throughput                               188.3    20191.8     1072.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0   177441.0      664.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    43517.0      404.1
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0  1771809.0     1151.9
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6  2739102.5     1773.0
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6 11210018.3     1002.6
Process Creation                               569.3    64281.4     1129.1
System Call Overhead                        114433.5 19818827.5     1731.9
                                                                 =========
     FINAL SCORE                                                     840.3


==============================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2, 8 threads)
System -- Linux vz 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:17 MSD 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                      65672880   3648024  58635008   6% /

Start Benchmark Run: Mon Nov  2 06:22:56 CST 2009
 06:22:56 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.20, 0.88, 0.32

End Benchmark Run: Mon Nov  2 06:33:02 CST 2009
 06:33:02 up 11 min,  2 users,  load average: 27.90, 11.13, 4.73


                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7 36500265.7      968.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1295.2      155.9
Execl Throughput                               188.3     3618.3      192.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0   167840.0      628.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    41757.0      387.7
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0  1752507.0     1139.3
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6  2243795.1     1452.4
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6 14018287.3     1253.7
Process Creation                               569.3     9315.9      163.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8     1147.4      256.1
System Call Overhead                        114433.5 20733248.3     1811.8
                                                                 =========
     FINAL SCORE                                                     538.9

 
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