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EVE access time benchmark
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Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-11-02 16:56:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Ravow
I got some request about benching EVE with zram and tmpfs to lower access time and compare the two solution.

Those bench's will be made in three phases:
Phase 1 : EVE online folder read time (the whole folder). These test will include the unpacking of .stuff files time delta.
Phase 2 : Time from running the .sh script in console to fully loaded (When I'm in space and it stopped lagging.
Phase 3 : I will go to some WH anomalies and compare the lag.

Here my specifications :

Hardware (basic)

  • CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1055T - All 6 cores at 4055Mhz, turboboost disabled.
  • Motherboard : GA-MA785G-UD3H
  • RAM : 16GB DDR800, clocked at about 220Mhz
  • Video card : AMD Radeon 4870HD
  • Uptime : 21 days


You can get all the detail about my hardware there. Yes, the sound blaster live is my main sound card ;)

Software

  • Kernel : 3.1-rc9 [git] (65112dccf8a113737684366349d7f9ec373ddc47)
  • xorg : 1.11
  • Video drivers : r600g [git]
    • libdrm version : b317c96361f88a0a4ccb2faeff09b0476d142c68
    mesa version : d06cc42c3c85382600176d118d8bf492b4de6a55
    xf86-video-ati version : a6b2bd2d184f10d4c56c4ee17186aedb238a36ec
  • Wine : 1.3.31 [git] (d63651fe183715f8ef12ea31c5c6485a78c7f9ae)


Wich EVE it is?
In each phase, 5 EVE installation will be used and they are named like that:

  • EVE-RAPTOR => EVE installation on a 74GB Western Digital Raptor HDD. File system is BTRFS.
  • EVE-RAID5 => EVE installation on a RAID-5 array composed of 3 x 1TB Western Digital Black Caviar HDD. File system is BTRFS.
  • EVE-SERPENT => EVE installation on a encrypted volume on the RAID5 disk. LUKS, Serpent256 algorithm. Will be EXT2 formated.
  • EVE-TMPFS => EVE installation on a tmpfs ramdrive, no compression.
  • EVE-ZRAM => EVE installation on a zram ramdrive, compressed. EXT2 file system will be used.


These bench will be made in the next three days. Fell free to eve-mail me about request (test to add, more details...) and I will try to do my best. Details about how to do that (tmpfs, zram)... will be included in the phase1 bench so you will be able to reproduce test and compare or just use them and enjoy.
Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-11-02 16:56:47 UTC
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Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-11-02 16:57:00 UTC
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Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-11-02 16:57:43 UTC
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Leod Athas
TURN LEFT
#5 - 2011-11-02 17:22:34 UTC
As one of the curious folk, I fully endorse this benchmark.
Sleekman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-04 01:49:24 UTC
As the original requester, thanks.
Miraqu
Kneipenterroristen.
#7 - 2011-11-04 13:39:42 UTC
Keep us posted. Maybe its worth to try.
Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-11-07 16:20:44 UTC
I will make it this week.

The accumulation of silent corruption on my BTRFS partition (RAID-5) made me too frustrated and finally I bought an external USB 2TB drive to backup all... It took lot of time because i'm limited to USB2 but now it's done and I finished the reorganization of my HDD.

Before : RAID5[3x1TB = 2TB] => BTRFS
Now : RAID5[3x1TB] => LVM2[lot of LV] => LUKS => Reiser4 (or killer4, call it the way you want, it's the best FS I found) on most of the LV

So for all EVE on HDD test, they will be made on a dedicated LV on my RAID so I will be sure to get the optimum performance and 0 fragmentation. (Like HDD test on the best world).

I will have a LV with LUKS and one without LUKS for the encryption comparison.
Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-11-10 21:12:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Ravow
Sorry for my delay...

The Phase 1 is almost done.
You can see the draft there : http://pastie.org/2843725

Please note that I still need to type some text and correct the text errors too.
I will put the zram test this evening as I have some ram limitation problem there (only 16GB on my system)

For now, you can see that for hard drive test, ReiserFS seam to be a winner.. Followed closely by reiser4. Reiserfs don't have any overhead. EXT2 beat all of them in speed but don have journalisation. BTRFS is the big looser as 8.8GB don't fit in a 10GB btrfs partition...

The fastest for loading EVE is tmpfs, with 3.3GB/s on my system. zram will be a bit lower but have a space occupancy similar to Reiser4 with the gzip1 cryptocompress plugin so it use about 6.5/7GB of RAM instead of 8.8 like the tmpfs.

I have a surprise question too : Do anyone know how to put color on this new forum? I want to make my result... more readable :).
Sleekman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2011-11-20 16:48:55 UTC
Bump for continuation?