Sysbench weirdness on SLES 10

2008-06-20 at 08:45 am Matthew Yonkovit

Wanted to note some weirdness in using sysbench’s rnrd tests on SLES 10.  Running some bencharks for a client on their new SAN this week and ran into an interesting issue.  Whenever I run sysbench with the following:

time sysbench –num-threads=16 –test=fileio –file-total-size=20G –file-test-mode=rndrd  run

The system CPU spikes to 90-100% of the machine and almost no io ends up going to the disk.  Seems like I am missing something, used the same version on ubuntu & centos without the same issues.  Tried local & san disk, the same pattern holds true.

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
5.40    0.00   86.66    0.00    0.00    7.95

Device:    rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda          0.00   1.80  0.00  1.90    0.00   31.20     0.00    15.60    16.42     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdb          0.00   0.30  0.00  1.00    0.00   11.20     0.00     5.60    11.20     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdc          0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00

The following disk tests are fine however:

time sysbench –num-threads=16 –test=fileio –file-total-size=20G –file-test-mode=rndwr  run
time sysbench –num-threads=16 –test=fileio –file-total-size=100G –file-test-mode=rndrw –file-rw-ratio=1 run

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.01    0.00    6.94    5.78    0.00   87.25

Device:    rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda          0.00   0.43  0.03  0.38    0.27    7.20     0.13     3.60    17.92     0.00    0.48   0.48   0.02
sdb          0.00   0.23  0.00  0.43    0.00    6.13     0.00     3.07    14.15     0.00    1.85   1.23   0.05
sdc          0.00 58386.72  0.08 556.98    0.67 470907.33     0.33 235453.67   845.34    67.17  120.58   1.15  64.19

So its only the read random test.  Not sure what is going on yet, but I thought I would through this out here to remind me to test & figure this out later.


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