Yes horde is based on PHP and Mysql. But the page I am hitting with ab is just the login page and no database involved.Paras.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Pablo Garcia Melga <malevo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not familiar with Horde, does it run against a database server ?,
based on the information you provided, there's seems to be something
else preventing the apache to serve the requests on time.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pablo,
> Here the o/p:
> command: ab -t 60 -c 100 https://domain/h/imp/login.php
>
> vmstat:
> [root@wmail /]# vmstat -S M 2 20
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> -----cpu------
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
> wa st
> 40 0 0 7305 288 2259 0 0 0 3 14 11 2 1 97
> 0 0
> 7 0 0 7301 288 2259 0 0 0 0 1785 15462 39 15 46
> 0 0
> 47 0 0 7296 288 2259 0 0 0 0 1720 15032 40 17 43
> 0 0
> 25 0 0 7297 288 2260 0 0 0 62 1656 15157 40 15 45
> 0 0
> 7 0 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1866 15701 40 17 44
> 0 0
> 51 1 0 7293 288 2260 0 0 0 42 1862 16083 37 14 44
> 4 0
> 1 0 0 7295 288 2260 0 0 0 12 1807 15293 42 15 42
> 0 0
> 51 0 0 7298 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1797 16015 36 14 50
> 0 0
> 14 1 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 54 1782 15001 42 15 41
> 2 0
> 36 0 0 7293 288 2260 0 0 0 220 1728 14567 43 16 37
> 3 0
> 17 0 0 7292 288 2260 0 0 0 42 1726 15443 40 16 44
> 0 0
> 11 0 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 10 1844 15618 39 14 46
> 0 0
> 9 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1617 14694 41 15 44
> 0 0
> 4 0 0 7291 288 2260 0 0 0 44 1632 14668 42 15 43
> 0 0
> 7 0 0 7287 288 2260 0 0 0 16 1657 14941 38 17 45
> 0 0
> 14 1 0 7287 288 2260 0 0 0 40 1751 15042 39 17 41
> 3 0
> 43 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 12 1787 15635 38 18 44
> 0 0
> 1 0 0 7288 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1675 14830 41 17 42
> 0 0
> 44 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 44 1762 15691 33 16 51
> 0 0
> 39 0 0 7288 288 2260 0 0 0 10 1666 14491 41 18 40
> 1 0
>
> Process waiting for run time (r) seems to be high. But don't know if it is
> normal with 100 concurrent users.
> Thanks
> Paras.
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Pablo Garcia Melga <malevo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Paras, have you checked the OS counters ?, is this completely CPU bound ?
>> would you post a "vmstat 2" run during the ab testing ?
>>
>> Regards, Pablo
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > I got almost the same result as yours with a small test php script. But
>> > with
>> > the login page of horde, I am getting a small number of requests
>> > processed.
>> > I am assuming my tuned apache is fine and its the bulky horde php
>> > scripts
>> > that are hitting me. But still looking around the solution.. I have
>> > memcached and eaccelerator in place but not seeing improvements.
>> >
>> > With small php script:
>> > nagarkot:~ ppradhan$ ab -t 10 -c 30 https://domain/test.php
>> > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
>> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
>> > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
>> > Benchmarking hostname (be patient)
>> > Finished 4608 requests
>> >
>> > Server Software: Apache/2.2.3
>> > Server Hostname: hostname
>> > Server Port: 443
>> > SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256
>> > Document Path: /test.php
>> > Document Length: 68 bytes
>> > Concurrency Level: 30
>> > Time taken for tests: 10.003 seconds
>> > Complete requests: 4608
>> > Failed requests: 0
>> > Write errors: 0
>> > Total transferred: 1107432 bytes
>> > HTML transferred: 313480 bytes
>> > Requests per second: 460.65 [#/sec] (mean)
>> > Time per request: 65.125 [ms] (mean)
>> > Time per request: 2.171 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent
>> > requests)
>> > Transfer rate: 108.11 [Kbytes/sec] received
>> > Connection Times (ms)
>> > min mean[+/-sd] median max
>> > Connect: 8 30 33.3 26 406
>> > Processing: 5 35 21.4 32 386
>> > Waiting: 5 30 20.4 27 383
>> > Total: 20 65 40.3 59 462
>> > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
>> > 50% 59
>> > 66% 64
>> > 75% 69
>> > 80% 72
>> > 90% 81
>> > 95% 91
>> > 98% 154
>> > 99% 269
>> > 100% 462 (longest request)
>> >
>> >
>> > With horde:
>> >
>> > --
>> > nagarkot:~ ppradhan$ ab -t 10 -c 30 https://domain/h/imp/login.php
>> > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
>> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
>> > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
>> > Benchmarking hostname (be patient)
>> > Finished 28 requests
>> >
>> > Server Software: Apache/2.2.3
>> > Server Hostname: hostname
>> > Server Port: 443
>> > SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256
>> > Document Path: /h/imp/login.php
>> > Document Length: 16808 bytes
>> > Concurrency Level: 30
>> > Time taken for tests: 10.057 seconds
>> > Complete requests: 28
>> > Failed requests: 0
>> > Write errors: 0
>> > Total transferred: 490644 bytes
>> > HTML transferred: 470624 bytes
>> > Requests per second: 2.78 [#/sec] (mean)
>> > Time per request: 10775.575 [ms] (mean)
>> > Time per request: 359.186 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent
>> > requests)
>> > Transfer rate: 47.64 [Kbytes/sec] received
>> > Connection Times (ms)
>> > min mean[+/-sd] median max
>> > Connect: 9 213 220.9 269 867
>> > Processing: 660 3935 2707.5 3242 9787
>> > Waiting: 659 3934 2707.5 3241 9785
>> > Total: 926 4148 2762.9 3314 10056
>> > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
>> > 50% 3314
>> > 66% 4803
>> > 75% 6077
>> > 80% 6369
>> > 90% 8963
>> > 95% 9699
>> > 98% 10056
>> > 99% 10056
>> > 100% 10056 (longest request)
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Paras.
>> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, John List <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 09/13/2010 12:41 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> John,
>> >> I am testing to support 300 requests / second. concurrent parameter in
>> >> ab
>> >> does test number of Established tcp session per second if I am not
>> >> mistaken.
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Paras.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry again, Paras. This time I erred in two ways: I said you were
>> >> testing
>> >> at 300 connections per second. Actually, your -c parameter is 100 so
>> >> you are
>> >> testing at 100 concurrent requests (not requests per second; the actual
>> >> number of requests per second is probably far higher).
>> >>
>> >> Suggestions:
>> >>
>> >> Post your complete ab results back here
>> >> You might want to run your test against a (non-encrypted) http url (as
>> >> well as the encrypted https url you are using) to see to see if the
>> >> encryption process is a significant part of the processing time. (I'm
>> >> guessing it will be.)
>> >>
>> >> FWIW, I'm posting my own ab results below. I ran ab from my desktop
>> >> against a simple login screen on a webserver running on a dual-core
>> >> laptop
>> >> on the same local network using a command of "ab -t 10 -c 30
>> >> http://192.168.1.3/Login.html". As you can see, I was actually
>> >> completing
>> >> 573 requests per second!:
>> >>
>> >> # ab -t 10 -c 30 http://192.168.1.3/Login.html
>> >> This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
>> >> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,
>> >> http://www.zeustech.net/
>> >> Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
>> >>
>> >> Benchmarking 192.168.1.3 (be patient)
>> >> Completed 5000 requests
>> >> Finished 5734 requests
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Server Software: Apache/2.2.12
>> >> Server Hostname: 192.168.1.3
>> >> Server Port: 80
>> >>
>> >> Document Path: /Login.html
>> >> Document Length: 2409 bytes
>> >>
>> >> Concurrency Level: 30
>> >> Time taken for tests: 10.002 seconds
>> >> Complete requests: 5734
>> >> Failed requests: 0
>> >> Write errors: 0
>> >> Total transferred: 16439378 bytes
>> >> HTML transferred: 13813206 bytes
>> >> Requests per second: 573.30 [#/sec] (mean)
>> >> Time per request: 52.328 [ms] (mean)
>> >> Time per request: 1.744 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent
>> >> requests)
>> >> Transfer rate: 1605.14 [Kbytes/sec] received
>> >>
>> >> Connection Times (ms)
>> >> min mean[+/-sd] median max
>> >> Connect: 0 0 0.4 0 7
>> >> Processing: 4 50 68.6 41 1918
>> >> Waiting: 3 49 68.4 41 1918
>> >> Total: 4 50 68.6 42 1919
>> >>
>> >> Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
>> >> 50% 42
>> >> 66% 46
>> >> 75% 50
>> >> 80% 53
>> >> 90% 81
>> >> 95% 120
>> >> 98% 180
>> >> 99% 282
>> >> 100% 1919 (longest request)
>> >> #
>> >>
>> >> I hope this helps. (And thanks for introducing me to ab!)
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM, John List <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 09/10/2010 06:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John List <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Which processes are using the processors the most? (I suspect your
>> >>>> imap
>> >>>> server might be more responsible than apache.)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> John Hicks
>> >>>
>> >>> True . But I am only hitting the login.php page from ab to benchmark.
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>> Paras.
>> >>>
>> >>> (Pardon me for not reading your op more carefully.)
>> >>>
>> >>> I am not familiar with ab, but after a quick read, I have one
>> >>> observation:
>> >>>
>> >>> You say you are building a system to support 200+ concurrent users on
>> >>> horde. I assume that means 200 users concurrently running horde and
>> >>> therefore checking their inbox every minute or so. That would be about
>> >>> 3.3
>> >>> requests per second.
>> >>>
>> >>> It looks to me like your ab test is testing at 300.0 connections per
>> >>> second.
>> >>>
>> >>> In other words, perhaps you needn't be too concerned about sluggish
>> >>> performance from the ab test.
>> >>>
>> >>> John Hicks
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 09/08/2010 03:42 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Hi,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Looking for recommendations.
>> >>>>> I need to serve 100-200+ concurrent users to provide php based
>> >>>>> webmail
>> >>>>> client (horde). I have setup memcached and php-fastcgid for this
>> >>>>> purpose.
>> >>>>> The server has four 2.2G AMD optereon cores with 8GB of memory. I am
>> >>>>> doing
>> >>>>> stress test using ab as: ab -t 36000 -c 100
>> >>>>> https://url/h/imp/login.php.
>> >>>>> What I have noticed if the number of concurrent users are more than
>> >>>>> around
>> >>>>> 25, I get the sluggish performance and I can see linux load rising
>> >>>>> high to
>> >>>>> 25 to 30 and all the cpu cores are approximately 75% used.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> This is what I have in config files:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> mpm worker:
>> >>>>> --
>> >>>>> <IfModule worker.c>
>> >>>>> StartServers 15
>> >>>>> MaxClients 960
>> >>>>> MinSpareThreads 75
>> >>>>> MaxSpareThreads 150
>> >>>>> ThreadsPerChild 64
>> >>>>> MaxRequestsPerChild 5000
>> >>>>> --
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> memcached: 4GB
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ---
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> fcgid:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> <IfModule !mod_fastcgi.c>
>> >>>>> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
>> >>>>> MaxRequestsPerProcess 10000
>> >>>>> MaxProcessCount 100
>> >>>>> IPCCommTimeout 240
>> >>>>> IdleTimeout 240
>> >>>>> ProcessLifeTime 300
>> >>>>> BusyTimeout 300
>> >>>>> DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100
>> >>>>> DefaultMinClassProcessCount 50
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> </IfModule>
>> >>>>> ---
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> php-fcgid:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> # Number of PHP childs that will be launched. Leave undefined to let
>> >>>>> PHP decide.
>> >>>>> # DefaultInitEnv PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN 4
>> >>>>> # Maximum requests before a process is stopped and a new one is
>> >>>>> launched
>> >>>>> DefaultInitEnv PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS 10000
>> >>>>> ----
>> >>>>> OS: RHEL 5.5
>> >>>>> Apache: 2.2.3
>> >>>>> PHP: 5.1
>> >>>>> Mysql: 5.0
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Will appreciate for any inputs.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Thanks!
>> >>>>> Paras.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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