Performance/Microbenchmarks
Benchmark description
Testbed Configuration
Hardware
- Server: 4xHexCore Intel Xeon (2.66 GHz), 32 GB RAM
- Client: 4xHexCore Intel Xeon (2.136 GHz), 32 GB RAM
- Network: 1Gbit direct server<>client connection
Platform:
- Virtualization Software: Xen CentOS 5.5 x86_64, OpenVZ (RHEL6) 2.6.32-042test006.1.x86_64
- Guest OS: CentOS 5.5 x86_64
Results
| Operation | #1 Native CentOS 5.5 x64 kernel 2.6.18 | #2 Xen CentOS 5.5 x64 kernel 2.6.18 | #3 OpenVZ CentOS 5.5 x64 kernel 2.6.18 | #4 Native RHEL 6.0 x64 kernel 2.6.32 | #5 VzLin RHEL 6.0 x64 kernel 2.6.32 |
| Context switch using pipe | 251K | 126K | . | 194K | 166K |
| Context switch using pipe (8 threads) | 6028K | 605K | 4807K | 3993K | 3686K |
| Process execve() | 3162 | 1074 | 4217 | 8052 | 7288 |
| Process fork() | 4630 | 1958 | 5728 | 14773 | 14182 |
| System call | 4381K | 993K | 3583K | 4854K | 3408K |
