[CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

Thu Oct 21 19:50:01 UTC 2010
Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote:

> On 10/21/2010 12:01 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:
> > So what we're on the verge of doing here is creating a test set... I'd
> > love to see a shell script that ran a bunch of tests, gathered data
> > about the system and then created an archive that would then be uploaded
> > to a website which created graphs. Dreaming maybe but it would be
> > consistent. So what goes in our testset?
>
> I am trying to create just that - a kickstart that will build a machine
> as a Xen dom0, build 4 domU's, fire up puppet inside the domU's do the
> testing and scp results into a central git repo. Then something similar
> for KVM.
>
> will get the basic framework online today.
>
> - KB
> ______
>

Do you suppose you could get it to use Phoronix Test Suite so
we can start to have measurable stats? We could do the same thing for any VM
software - even
the ones that don't allow publishing stats in the EULA...

I'm also wondering if we should do the whole test suite or a subset.
Here is the list of tests..

aio-stress
apache
battery-power-usage
blogbench
bork
build-apache
build-imagemagick
build-linux-kernel
build-mplayer
build-mysql
build-php
bullet
bwfirt
byte
c-ray
cachebench
compilebench
compliance-acpi
compliance-sensors
compress-7zip
compress-gzip
compress-lzma
compress-pbzip2
crafty
dbench
dcraw
doom3
encode-ape
encode-flac
encode-mp3
encode-ogg
encode-wavpack
espeak
et
etqw-demo-iqc
etqw-demo
etqw
ffmpeg
fhourstones
fio
fs-mark
gcrypt
geekbench
gluxmark
gmpbench
gnupg
graphics-magick
gtkperf
hdparm-read
himeno
hmmer
idle-power-usage
idle
iozone
j2dbench
java-scimark2
jgfxbat
john-the-ripper
juliagpu
jxrendermark
lightsmark
mafft
mandelbulbgpu
mandelgpu
mencoder
minion
mrbayes
n-queens
nero2d
network-loopback
nexuiz-iqc
nexuiz
npb
openarena
openssl
opstone-svd
opstone-svsp
opstone-vsp
padman
pgbench
phpbench
postmark
povray
prey
pybench
pyopencl
qgears2
quake4
ramspeed
render-bench
scimark2
smallpt-gpu
smallpt
smokin-guns
specviewperf10
specviewperf9
sqlite
stream
stresscpu2
sudokut
sunflow
supertuxkart
systester
tachyon
tiobench
tremulous
trislam
tscp
ttsiod-renderer
unigine-heaven
unigine-sanctuary
unigine-tropics
unpack-linux
urbanterror
ut2004-demo
vdrift-fps-monitor
vdrift
video-cpu-usage
video-extensions
warsow
wine-cloth
wine-domino
wine-fire2
wine-hdr
wine-metaballs
wine-vf2
wine-water
x11perf
x264
xplane9-iqc
xplane9
yafray



Grant McWilliams

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