Comments on: Joyent/TextDrive’s Really, Really, Really Bad Netperf Benchmarks

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 30 May 2006 09:03:11 +0000

Oh, just checked the disclaimer:

Disclaimer: these were with FreeBSD 5. FreeBSD 6 doesn’t seem to have the same issues

Netperf server running on yumi.textdrive.com (solaris nevada build) and comox.textdrive.com (freebsd 5.4).

Tested from emi.textdrive.com (solaris) and pacific.textdrive.com (freebsd)

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 30 May 2006 09:00:26 +0000

Could you benchmark other versions of FreeBSD, let’s say 5.4 or 5.5 or even 4.x?

Jason might claim that the switch to Solaris was done a while ago, before 6.0 became production.

By: george li

george li — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:16:20 +0000

I guess Jason’s math is as bas as his attitude and as bad as Textdrive’s support. They are full of themselves, with no reason other than hype. If the don’t get their act together … you know what they say: you can fool some people sometime….

By: Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:44:22 +0000

I’ll bet $1 that the problem with their configuration is that their switch and ethernet cards do not agree on their auto-sensing of speed or duplex, causing such issues. There should be a boat load of errors in the syslog about collisions on at least one of the systems. The solution is to get better hardware or to hard-wire either the switch or NIC or both to the proper speed/duplex settings.

FWIW, I just ran this test from a 6.0/i386 box to a 6.1/amd64 box and got these numbers:

/usr/local/netperf/netperf -fM -H yertle -tTCP_STREAM -- -m1472 TCP STREAM TEST to yertle Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. MBytes/sec

65536 32768 1472 10.00 53.37

They’re both running gigabit NICs thru a cheap-o Dell unmanaged switch. And they’re not idle boxes, either…

By: joseph

joseph — Sat, 06 May 2006 05:22:46 +0000

The post at Text Snippets has some numbers, along with some additional tests.

By: Powen

Powen — Sat, 06 May 2006 03:29:17 +0000

You should also take a look at this page, it seems to have different numbers than you do.

http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/399

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 05 May 2006 23:41:32 +0000

You should head on over to the TextDrive forum and ask – Mr Hoffman posts there quite regularly.

http://forum.textdrive.com

Warren