> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:02:23 -0700 > From: david@xxxxxxx > To: bodycare_5@xxxxxxxx > CC: squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: squid 3.2.0.5 smp scaling issues > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Jenny Lee wrote: > > >> On 12/06/11 18:46, Jenny Lee wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Jenny Lee wrote: > >>> > >>> I like to know how you are able to do>13000 requests/sec. > >>> tcp_fin_timeout is 60 seconds default on all *NIXes and available ephemeral port range is 64K. > >>> I can't do more than 1K requests/sec even with tcp_tw_reuse/tcp_tw_recycle with ab. I get commBind errors due to connections in TIME_WAIT. > >>> Any tuning options suggested for RHEL6 x64? > >>> Jenny > >>> > >>> I would have a concern using both those at the same time. reuse and recycle. Reuse a socket, but recycle it, I've seen issues when testing my own linux distro's with both of these settings. Right or wrong that was my experience. > >>> fin_timeout, if you have a good connection, there should be no reason that a system takes 60 seconds to send out a fin. Cut that in half, if not by 2/3's > >>> And what is your limitation at 1K requests/sec, load (if so look at I/O) Network saturation? Maybe I missed an earlier thread and I too would tilt my head at 13K requests sec! > >>> Tory > >>> --- > >>> > >>> > >>> As I mentioned, my limitation is the ephemeral ports tied up with TIME_WAIT. TIME_WAIT issue is a known factor when you are doing testing. > >>> > >>> When you are tuning, you apply options one at a time. tw_reuse/tc_recycle were not used togeter and I had 10 sec fin_timeout which made no difference. > >>> > >>> Jenny > >>> > >>> > >>> nb: i still dont know how to do indenting/quoting with this hotmail... after 10 years. > >>> > >> > >> Couple of thing to note. > >> Firstly that this was an ab (apache bench) reported figure. It > >> calculates the software limitation based on speed of transactions done. > >> Not necessarily accounting for things like TIME_WAIT. Particularly if it > >> was extrapolated from say, 50K requests, which would not hit that OS limit. > > > > Ab accounts for 200-OK responses and TIME_WAITS cause squid to issue 500. Of course if you send in 50K it would not be subject to this but I usually send couple 10+ million to simulate load at least for a while. > > > > > >> He also mentioned using a "local IP address". If that was on the lo > >> interface. It would not be subject to things like TIME_WAIT or RTT lag. > > > > When I was running my benches on loopback, I had tons of TIME_WAITS for 127.0.0.1 and squid would bail out with: "commBind: Cannot bind socket..." > > > > Of course, I might be doing things wrong. > > > > I am interested in what to optimize on RHEL6 OS level to achieve higher requests per second. > > > > Jenny > > I'll post my configs when I get back to the office, but one thing is that > if you send requests faster than they can be serviced the pending requests > build up until you start getting timeouts. so I have to tinker with the > number of requests that can be sent in parallel to keep the request rate > below this point. > > note that when I removed the long list of ACLs I was able to get this 13K > requests/sec rate going from machine A to squid on machine B to apache on > machine C so it's not a localhost thing. > > getting up to the 13K rate on apache does require doing some tuning and > tweaking of apache, stock configs that include dozens of dynamically > loaded modules just can't achieve these speeds. These are also fairly > beefy boxes, dual quad core opterons with 64G ram and 1G ethernet > (multiple cards, but I haven't tried trunking them yet) > > David Lang Ok, I am assuming that persistent-connections are on. This doesn't simulate any real life scenario. I would like to know if anyone can do more than 500 reqs/sec with persistent connections off. Jenny
