On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:34:28PM -0400, Shyam wrote: > On 08/29/2016 08:25 AM, Nigel Babu wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:01:18PM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote: > > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > > > I've had chats with Manoj and Ambarish about performance testing and what we > > > > can do upstream. Niels today solved half my problem by pointing out that we can > > > > get physical nodes on CentOS CI. The general idea is to run iozone[1] and > > > > smallfile[2] on a fixed frequency for master (to begin with). > > > > > > > > Does this sound like a good idea? If so, read on. > > > > > > > > For this to happens a few things need to happen: > > > > * I'll need some help from a few people who can read the reports and coordinate > > > > fixes. That is, someone needs to "own" performance for upstream. > > > > * I need some help in generating the right reports so we can figure out if our > > > > performance went up or down. > > I volunteer for both of the above. > > > > > > > The provisioning in the CentOS CI does not allow us to select certain > > > systems (yet). So you would get different performance results, depending > > > on the hardware that the reservation request returns: > > > https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/PubHardware > > > > > > Also, these physical machines do not have additional disks. The single > > > SSD that these systems have, is completely used by the installation, no > > > free space to partition to our liking, no additional disks available. > > > > > > I welcome any additional testing that we can run regulary, but to call > > > it 'performance testing' might be a little pre-mature. At least the > > > performance results should be marked as 'unoptimized' or similar. > > > > > > HTH, > > > Niels > > > > > > > The goal of this testing, to begin with, wouldn't be to get absolute numbers > > but to try and catch decrease in performance, if that makes sense. In essence, > > it's regression testing but for performance. > > > > Thank you for raising the fact that it may be inconsistent, I'll talk to the > > Centos CI folks and see what's the best way forward for us before we get here. > > But let's work with the assumption that I'll sort out the infra side of things. > > I had the same concern as Niels, but as long as we can sort out the infar > side of things (which we can in parallel to building this up), I see that > this would be valuable. Thank you Shyam. I'll sort out the infra depdencies and get back when we can have things running. -- nigelb _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
