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  • Would rather have 30GB RAM and 512MB Disk :]

  • @ErawanArifNugroho said: Hi, after changing DiskDriver from ide to virtio, the vm is always offline in SolusVM

    Same problem, except mine isn't coming back online even after I change it to IDE

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Insidiea said: Same problem, except mine isn't coming back online even after I change it to IDE

    As already mentioned, I took down the node to resolve an issue... As mantioned in the welcome email, you can not rely on uptime, as this was the exact purpose of the testing - to help me resolve the issues and all the problems :)

  • InsidieaInsidiea Member
    edited July 2012

    @LiquidHost said: As already mentioned, I took down the node to resolve an issue... As mantioned in the welcome email, you can not rely on uptime, as this was the exact purpose of the testing - to help me resolve the issues and all the problems :)

    No it wasn't that, it's been offline for several hours and I can't get it to boot, made a ticket about it.

    EDIT:

    Oh the node is down right now? thought it was for only a few minutes, sorry haha

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited July 2012

    Apperantely it would not be for only 2 minutes. The server has problems with the VT, apperantely it can not start with intel VT enabled, meaning no KVM vm can start. Both solusvm and the DC are checking it out now.


    Looks like a hardware issue. The virtualizor no longer detects intel VT, no matter it is enabled.

    Edit2: CPU is beeing replaced.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Jack said: @LiquidHost what DC are you using?

    This is at LSN. The CPU should be replaced soon and will see if this is the problem.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Jack said: Paha! , so they don't build servers out of fresh?

    They told me in a ticket they didn't know why IO was this slow due to it had freshly been built.

    Couldnt really get you, but new hardware tends to fail from time to time as well.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    13 more have been added, so order while they are in stock.

    Hardware has been replaced, OS as well. Email was sent to everyone regarding this.

  • TaylorTaylor Member

    @LiquidHost

    I will update you on my testing after sunday, have been working.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Taylor said: I will update you on my testing after sunday, have been working.

    >

    Great, thank you! :)

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Jack said: If it's good I want to keep it. how much will they be /month?

    Well, the plan for 512 RAM would be around 7$. Maybe a little bit less of HDD.

  • root@121-242-63-74:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
    CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
    Number of cores : 4
    CPU frequency :  3300.184 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 501 MB
    Total amount of swap : 979 MB
    System uptime :   3 min,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 11.1MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 10.7MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 11.2MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.86MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 5.36MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 4.23MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 471KB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 9.72MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 3.76MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.5MB/s
    I/O speed :  116 MB/s
    

    Ping: http://pastie.org/4291494 (thanks to lowendping.nikki.us)

    VMstat

    root@121-242-63-74:~# vmstat
    procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
     r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
     0  0      0 361232   7188  51776    0    0    54   297  253  873  0  0 99  0
    

    Mem

    
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           501        383        118          0         65        214
    -/+ buffers/cache:        103        398
    Swap:          979          0        979
    
    

    Running Debian 6.

    I couldn't get IOPING to install, can anyone link me to a tutorial?

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Please make sure that virtio is enabled :)

  • VirtIO enabled:

    root@121-242-63-74:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fsync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.6759 s, 92.0 MB/s
    
    root@121-242-63-74:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fsync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.2789 s, 116 MB/s
    
    

    IOPS

    
    10 requests completed in 9008.9 ms, 5959 iops, 23.3 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.1 ms
    
    64 requests completed in 63117.3 ms, 5039 iops, 19.7 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/0.7/0.1 ms
    
    
  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Weird, gettign much better results at my test kvm:
    http://i.imgur.com/mkttK.png
    centos minimal

    But still, the server seems to be under load, around 10 people started installation the past 1 hour.

  • @LiquidHost

    Yeah I can imagine, also for some reason your WHMCS logs my IP as 50.57.214.11 for tickets and order creation, but that's not my IP, it's a IP over at RackSpace?

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Insidiea said: Yeah I can imagine, also for some reason your WHMCS logs my IP as 50.57.214.11 for tickets and order creation, but that's not my IP, it's a IP over at RackSpace?

    Yeah, didn't have time to fix it, will get it resolved this days, just to get some of the latest shit out of my head :P

  • Some update :

    
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       Version 5.1.3                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
    
       Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                          Sunnyvale, CA, USA
       January 13, 2011                   johantheghost at yahoo period com
    
    
    1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    1 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    1 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3
    
    1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    1 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    1 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    1 x Process Creation  1 2 3
    
    1 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3
    
    1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3
    
    4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    4 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    4 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3
    
    4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3
    
    4 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    4 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    4 x Process Creation  1 2 3
    
    4 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    
    4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3
    
    4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3
    
    ========================================================================
       BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
    
       System: us: GNU/Linux
       OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-686 -- #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012
       Machine: i686 (unknown)
       Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
       CPU 0: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 (6600.4 bogomips)
              x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
       CPU 1: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 (6600.4 bogomips)
              x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
       CPU 2: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 (6600.4 bogomips)
              x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
       CPU 3: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 (6600.4 bogomips)
              x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
       13:01:43 up 58 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00; runlevel 2
    
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    Benchmark Run: Sat Jul 21 2012 13:01:43 - 13:29:53
    4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
    
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables       23183241.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Double-Precision Whetstone                     3442.1 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Execl Throughput                               2078.9 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks       1074884.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          298498.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       2656676.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Pipe Throughput                             2338156.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Pipe-based Context Switching                 436489.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Process Creation                               5741.6 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   5859.2 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   3279.9 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    System Call Overhead                        3880015.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    
    System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   23183241.8   1986.6
    Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       3442.1    625.8
    Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2078.9    483.5
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0    1074884.8   2714.4
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     298498.5   1803.6
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    2656676.4   4580.5
    Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    2338156.4   1879.5
    Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     436489.7   1091.2
    Process Creation                                126.0       5741.6    455.7
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       5859.2   1381.9
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       3279.9   5466.5
    System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3880015.2   2586.7
                                                                       ========
    System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1582.2
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Benchmark Run: Sat Jul 21 2012 13:29:53 - 13:58:09
    4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
    
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables       83107768.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Double-Precision Whetstone                    13366.6 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Execl Throughput                              24084.9 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        928255.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          240795.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       3021466.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Pipe Throughput                             8923255.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Pipe-based Context Switching                1695350.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    Process Creation                              85692.2 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  31461.6 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   4108.6 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
    System Call Overhead                       10917921.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
    
    System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
    Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   83107768.9   7121.5
    Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      13366.6   2430.3
    Execl Throughput                                 43.0      24084.9   5601.1
    File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     928255.8   2344.1
    File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     240795.4   1455.0
    File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    3021466.7   5209.4
    Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    8923255.4   7173.0
    Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0    1695350.8   4238.4
    Process Creation                                126.0      85692.2   6801.0
    Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      31461.6   7420.2
    Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       4108.6   6847.7
    System Call Overhead                          15000.0   10917921.4   7278.6
                                                                       ========
    System Benchmarks Index Score                                        4749.3
    
  • After enabling the virtio for Disk driver, still no improvement.

    Note : I'm using Debian

    dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.77776 s, 110 MB/s
  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    ^Thank you for the disk IO performance, however it does seem a little bit too slow. As I am getting around 160MB at the moment from centos minimal.

    Also, 2 more KVM VPS are added and once they are out no more will be given out.

  • Maybe I have to try to change to CentOS. Will post the results after reinstall :)

  • Out of stock again and that was fast

  • If someone still not familiar with CentOS netinstall installation in a KVM, please refer to this tutorial :

    http://www.lebstats.com/2012/07/22/tutorial-installing-centos-6-netinstall-in-a-kvm-vps.html

  • After installing to CentOS 6.3 netinstall 32bit , here is the IO :

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdata                                                                             sync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.12997 s, 151 MB/s
    
    # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.88506 s, 156 MB/s
    

    Wondering why it's little slower when with Debian 6

  • avelineaveline Member, Patron Provider

    @ErawanArifNugroho Maybe...virtio?

  • After enabling the virtio in Debian, I still get low result compared to CentOS

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    @ErawanArifNugroho said: After enabling the virtio in Debian, I still get low result compared to CentOS

    it should be more a ext3 / ext4 difference than a distribution difference.

    centos 6 use ext4 while debian use ext3 by default. Try reinstalling debian and change the partitioning so to use ext4 instead of ext3...

  • @prometeus said: it should be more a ext3 / ext4 difference than a distribution difference.

    Thank you sir :)
    I will try it again tonight

  • l2o88jl2o88j Member

    is some VPS left for testing ??

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    A couple of days have left for the trial, so far the node is running stable, actually looks like that some of the VMs are in actual use (judging from the server load and usage of resources).

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