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Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign [message #4296 is a reply to message #4295]

Wed, 05 July 2006 08:34

kir
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Clément Calmels wrote:
> What do you think of
> something like this:
> o reboot
> o run dbench (or wathever) X times
> o reboot
>
Perfectly fine with me.
>> Here you do not have to reboot. OpenVZ tools does not require OpenVZ
>> kernel to be built.
>>
>
> You got me... I was still believing the VZKERNEL_HEADERS variable was
> needed. Things have changed since vzctl 3.0.0-4..
Yes, we get rid off that dependency, to ease the external packages
maintenance.
> can I can split the "launch a guest" part into 2 parts:
> o guest creation
> o reboot
> o guest start-up
> Do you feel comfortable with that?
>
Perfectly fine. Same scenario applies to other cases: the rule of thumb
is if your test preparation involves a lot of I/O, you'd better reboot
in between preparation and the actual test.
>> The same will happen with most of the other tests involving I/O. Thus,
>> test results will be non-accurate. To achieve more accuracy and exclude
>> the impact of the disk and filesystem layout to the results, you should
>> reformat the partition you use for testing each time before the test.
>> Note that you don't have to reinstall everything from scratch -- just
>> use a separate partition (mounted to say /mnt/temptest) and make sure
>> most of the I/O during the test happens on that partition.
>>
> It would be possible for 'host' node... inside the 'guest' node, I don't
> know if it makes sense. Just adding an 'external' partition to the
> 'guest' for I/O test purpose? For example in an OpenVZ guest, creating a
> new and empty simfs partition in order to run test on it?
>
simfs is not a real filesystem, it is kinda 'pass-though' fake FS which
works on top of a real FS (like ext2 or ext3).
So, in order to have a new fresh filesystem for guests, you can create
some disk partition, mkfs and mount it to /vz. If you want to keep
templates, just
change the TEMPLATE variable in /etc/vz/vz.conf from /vz/template to
something outside of /vz. There are other ways possible, and I think the
same applies to VServer.
>>> - For the settings of the guest I tried to use the default settings (I
>>> had to change some openvz guest settings) just following the HOWTO on
>>> vserver or openvz site.
>>> For the kernel parameters, did you mean kernel config file tweaking?
>>>
>>>
>> No I mean those params from /proc/sys (== /etc/sysctl.conf). For
>> example, if you want networking for canOpenVZ guests, you have to turn on
>> ip_forwarding. There are some params affecting network performance, such
>> as various gc_thresholds. For the big number of guests, you have to tune
>> some system-wide parameters as well.
>>
>
> For the moment, I just follow the available documentation:
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Quick_installation#Configuring_sysctl _settings
> Do you think these paramenters can hardly affect network performance?
> From what I understand lot of them are needed.
>
OK. Still, such stuff should be documented on the test results pages.

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		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Tue, 04 July 2006 11:10
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: dev on Tue, 04 July 2006 14:32
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Cedric Le Goater on Tue, 04 July 2006 15:28
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Herbert Poetzl on Wed, 05 July 2006 12:13
		Re: Container Test Campaign By: Kirill Korotaev on Mon, 03 July 2006 07:49
		RE: Container Test Campaign By: mef on Mon, 03 July 2006 18:23
		Re: Container Test Campaign By: kir on Mon, 03 July 2006 08:14
		Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Tue, 04 July 2006 09:42
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: kir on Tue, 04 July 2006 12:19
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Tue, 04 July 2006 13:54
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: kir on Tue, 04 July 2006 14:52
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Cedric Le Goater on Tue, 04 July 2006 15:45
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Herbert Poetzl on Wed, 05 July 2006 14:02
		Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Tue, 04 July 2006 12:34
		Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Tue, 04 July 2006 13:02
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: kir on Tue, 04 July 2006 16:30
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Wed, 05 July 2006 07:40
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: kir on Wed, 05 July 2006 08:34
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: dev on Wed, 05 July 2006 10:43
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		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: dev on Thu, 06 July 2006 10:44
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		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: dev on Mon, 10 July 2006 08:16
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Herbert Poetzl on Thu, 06 July 2006 10:54
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Cedric Le Goater on Wed, 05 July 2006 12:31
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: Herbert Poetzl on Thu, 06 July 2006 10:51
		Re: [Vserver] Re: Container Test Campaign By: dev on Thu, 06 July 2006 11:30
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		Re: Container Test Campaign By: Clement Calmels on Wed, 12 July 2006 16:31
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