Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:02:20 -0700 From: "Alan Tegel" <alan.tegel@openwave.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Alan Tegel" <alan.tegel@openwave.com> Subject: RE: Question about Posix Threads Message-ID: <MAEIIMNAFOBDOMCEDBGGAEGGFDAA.alan.tegel@openwave.com> In-Reply-To: <20010424094822.O1790@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Any tuning tips for FreeBSD would be great. Our initial connections per sec we are aiming for is 6,000/secs. We will be pushing it much harder. We have three different load balancers available Big/IP, Alteon, and Web Director, that we may use to "pile"'m up behind the farm... We were running Redhat 6.2, Linux Kernel 2.2.14 The question about Posix threads came from an engineer... The threaded application we are running is one of our companies in-house applications. The messaging product we sell, is very scalable.... The designed scalability and performance into the product from the beginning.... Again any tuning tips would be awesome. What irritates me whenever I read the reviews from Linux they always "tweak" their kernel and subsystems while the leave you out-of-the-box..... All I can do is scream "Apple to Apples people" .... Thanks again guys for any and all info. +-ADT -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@wintelcom.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:48 AM To: Alan Tegel Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about Posix Threads * Alan Tegel <alan.tegel@openwave.com> [010424 09:33] wrote: > How we got to this question: > ---------------------------- > We have been using 5 Compaq 8500's running NT 4.0 using Loadrunner > (Mercury Interactive) to test the load. The Linux box was barely > able to hold the load, but it's support tool sar, (vm|mp)stat left a > fellow engineer to be disgusted. So, I recompiled Apache on > Solaris 8 on a 420R and he didn't have a problem. Since we have 4 > Compaq 5500's available, we were looking at alternatives to what > was initially installed. Test load of 1200/1500 http connections/sec > > Other engineers in the group started to ask question about how > well FreeBSD handled Posix threads and what the limitations were. > Since I opened my mouth, I said I would ask a few questions. And > being a FreeBSD fan, I decided to push you guys.... The other > alternatives were Linux and Solaris x86.... What version of apache are you using? Only apache 2.x uses threads, are you using apache 2.x? Well anyhow, it'd be interesting to see what happens when you try FreeBSD, be sure to keep me in the loop, I may be able to assist with some performance tuning tricks as I doubt FreeBSD will be able to handle the kind of load you want to throw at it out of the box. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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