Read: Up to 520 MB/s
Write: Up to 480 MB/s
Sustained Write: Up to 420 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 70,000 IOPS
The good thing there is that vendor put both maximal write ( most likely from state A ) and Sustained Write ( I guess from state C ).
However if you multiply 4KB*70000IOS, you will get 280000KB/s = 274MB/s, which is quite far from
declared 520MB/s.
What is the trick there: the trick is that maximal throughput in MB/sec you are getting when you use big block size, …
…of the second type you better use Transactions/Second/ User or Transactions/Second/ MB (which is similar measures as users in average have certain amount of data each). Doubling traffic for system of such type means handling twice amount of transactions on the twice amount of data.
Increasing amount of data is very serious implication for system performance. Some queries have relatively small impact (having LOG(N) scalability), others may have linear or even square complexity which …
500 MB of storage
10,000 storage transactions
SQL Azure
1 Web Edition database (available for first 3 months only)
AppFabric
100,000 Access Control transactions
2 Service Bus connections
Data Transfers (per region)
500 MB in
500 MB out
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…Mark discusses how his team works with the development teams, their experience with cloud deployments, some of the challenges they have faced as well as a few lessons learned. We filmed this outside, so you will hear some wind noise and some chatter from the next picnic table over in the first five minutes, but the noise subsides after a few minutes. Thanks, Mark.
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A new edition of Rails Magazine is now available, both in print and as a free pdf (36 pages, 2.8 MB) at http://railsmagazine.com/issues/6 .
In this number:
Beautifying Your Markup With Haml and Sass by Ethan Gunderson
Scaling Rails by Gonçalo Silva
Interview with Sarah Allen by Rupak Ganguly
Data Extraction with Hpricot by Jonas Alves
Deployment with Capistrano by Omar Meeky
Fake Data - The Secret of Great Testing by Robert Hall
Assuming 512 MB of RAM and you are only running Apache and MySQL on the box:
< IfModule mpm prefork module>
StartServers 2
MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 5
ServerLimit 20
MaxClients 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
</ IfModule>
You can bump ServerLimit and MaxClients to 48 or so if you have 1GB of RAM. Note that this assumes you're using a fairly typical WordPress installation, and you've tried …
…and RabbitMQ), both at startup (e.g. >120MB for ActiveMQ vs. <3 MB for ocamlmq) and as new queues are created or new topic subscriptions are added
bad performance with ActiveMQ's scalable (to thousands of queues) storage backends ( KahaDB, JDBC)
bad performance in RabbitMQ's topic message dispatch: RabbitMQ was doing a linear scan of the subscription table per dispatch
RabbitMQ did not guarantee that persistent messages had been saved to disk before sending …
…concurrency level in the range of a couple of tens, thanks to the fact that Rails needs about 25 MB per process. Multi-threaded Rails app servers can in theory spawn a couple of hundred of threads. After that it's also game over: an operating system thread needs a couple MB of stack space, so after a couple hundreds of threads you'll run out of virtual memory address on 32-bit systems even if you don't actually use that much memory.
There is another class of servers, …
Yehuda Katz from the Rails core team and New Relic's own Justin George talk about what's new in Rails 3. They begin with an overview of current and planned performance improvements, then follow up with a discussion of how instrumentation-like that performed by New Relic's RPM Ruby agent-is better enabled in the Rails 3 framework. Lastly, they touch on what users can expect as they make the change from Rails 2 to Rails 3.
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