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How could bandwagonhost get such a good result in IO test?
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How could bandwagonhost get such a good result in IO test?

http://www.hostingwizard.net/
Order by iops and the tops are all BandWagonHost and Xvmlabs.

ioping -c 10 .
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=11 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=4 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=113 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=3 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=3 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=2 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=93 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=3 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=3 us
4 KiB from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=2 us
--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9.08 s, 42.2 k iops, 164.8 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 2 us / 23 us / 113 us / 39 us

I have never seen "2 us" on other servers. Is there something like linuxatemyram?

Comments

  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    Getting high IOPS is a combination of the following:

    • SSD vs. HDD
    • RAID Type (5, 10, etc.)
    • RAID Controller
    • RAID Controller Cache Amount
    • RAID Controller Configuration (Write Back enabled, etc.)
    • RAID Controller Bus (PCI-E, PCI, etc.)

    You can get high IOPS by using high quality SSDs in a RAID 10, a RAID card which is SSD aware, large-local RAID cache, write-back enabled.

    Then you can also tweak the host OS and guest for additional disk I/O performance.

    Hopefully, this helps. It can grow from here and get even better when using newer and faster types of disks and supported protocols.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    launchvps said: Getting high IOPS is a combination of the following:

    There is another possibility which might overshadow everything else:

    • You're the first customer on a new node and performance will steadily decline as they overstuff the box.
  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @raindog308 said:

    launchvps said: Getting high IOPS is a combination of the following:

    There is another possibility which might overshadow everything else:

    • You're the first customer on a new node and performance will steadily decline as they overstuff the box.

    Very true.

  • If you have some bwh vps you know that performance don't decline, I have three vps since two years ago and they are always e same.

  • launchvpslaunchvps Member, Patron Provider

    @ScienceOnline said:
    If you have some bwh vps you know that performance don't decline, I have three vps since two years ago and they are always e same.

    That is good to hear.

    Just want to be sure it is communicated that disk I/O is a finite resource as is RAM, disk space, etc. So, if you have a few folks running applications which are consuming a large amount of disk I/O, the other folks on the node will suffer.

    Sounds like BWH does a good job of balancing nodes, I/O limiting, or something similar. Which is good.

  • WilliamWilliam Member
    edited December 2016

    launchvps said: You can get high IOPS by using high quality SSDs in a RAID 10, a RAID card which is SSD aware, large-local RAID cache, write-back enabled.

    Interesting points, but you miss the major step in tech - NVMe and PCIe AHCI SSDs delivering 3000MB/s in each direction with 150k IOPS+ (eg. Samsung SM951, SM961).

    launchvps said: You can get high IOPS by using high quality SSDs in a RAID 10

    High quality is pointless, Samsung SSDs cost more - yes, but they deliver less IOPS and MB/s per dollar than by now comparable Sandisk and especially the ultra cheap Intel 600 NVMe drives with 3D NAND. More SSDs and a larger array ALWAYS makes more sense than less higher quality SSDs.

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