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Wordpress and the WP Benchmark tool plugin

8Dweb

DracoBlue I agree, and though I had done this years ago on Plesk servers, I was taking my sweet time on the Enhance web/app servers we setup. Recently we did some more serious optimization of mysql and apache, on 2 of the 6 web/app servers in the shared hosting portion of our setup, and our scores went from 6.4 to 9.4 on older Epyc hardware. Big difference. We will be rolling out optimizations to remaining servers over the next several weekends.

Andreas

DracoBlue Yes I am aware of that. I have done it before. I added one line and i get 9's and 10's
I am just curious to know why the vast differences in performance.

AdamM

On another server today I managed to reach - Local file copy and access speed - 43478 MB/s
This is not fake, of course. In this test 3 block storage was used mounted for Enhance.

SharedGrid

AdamM On another server today I managed to reach - Local file copy and access speed - 43478 MB/s
This is not fake, of course. In this test 3 block storage was used mounted for Enhance.

Strange, as this server with NVMe drives in RAID-1 seems to achieve a higher 'local file copy and access speed' at 47619 MB/s

Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD

SharedGrid

could there be a difference in the raid controller?

AdamM

SharedGrid
Software raid 1? What kind of disks are these?
It's strange because I can't achieve this in raid 1 on NVMe.
Please show the entire result, not just a section.

SharedGrid

AdamM yes, these are in software raid 1. The other disk performance measurements aren't as good as your earlier result, but for some reason I'm achieving high local file copy results. I can't remember what NVMe drives we have in this server as we generally use a mixture for reliability reasons, I'll take a look shortly and will report back.

Full results:

This test is on our public WP test installation so it's limited to 1vCPU and 1GB memory with other customers also on this server. I just did another test and achieved over 55000MB/s this time.

I have done kernel optimisations on this server, but nothing that should have a increase on disk speed.

twest

AdamM does the enhance-package the site you're testing have limits set for the io? That would for sure prevent it from running at higher levels to see what the max potential is. Just an idea 🙂

SharedGrid

AdamM What kind of disks are these?

These are WD SN850X that were part of the test, btw.

AdamM

SharedGrid
It is very strange that I have different results. What number of drives do you have ? just 2 in raid1 ? Did you mount an extra disk for var/www for example ?

twest
No. This is a created domain on my admin master account so there are no limits.

jeff

We've seen similar behavior after an update. It was triggered by the WAF and was quickly cleared.

Interested to know if it was a similar cause.

SharedGrid

AdamM Just the 2 drives in raid 1, and no extra disks.

deydod

@AdamM @twest @SharedGrid
What CPUs are you using?

I have AMD Genoa 9654 and it seems on both CPU tests I am getting 9.53 (5.5 sec) and 8.53 (6.7 sec) scores.
It seems there is a big difference.

SharedGrid

deydod We use AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU's on customer servers. It will be the higher clock speed on the 7900 which is why it has a higher CPU score over the 9654.

AdamM

SharedGrid
I have NVMe drives with similar parameters and the results are much different, it's strange.
Maybe something is wrong with my raid 1 configuration....

Can you show the result cat /proc/mdstat ?

Zoinkies

https://imgur.com/a/5VnjDP2 <- on a populated server 134 ~ customers, average load around 60%.

Bit of a overkill infrastructure, but I'm running my own WC 5.2 GHz CPU(s) now.

AdamM

Zoinkies
"WC 5.2 GHz CPU(s) now"

What exactly do you have in mind? Can you share more info?

Zoinkies

For shits and giggles I ran the test on my empty server https://imgur.com/a/fFuY8KO

Zoinkies

AdamM I approached my current colo, asked them to build watercooled i9 setups for testing, deployed them now as mainline servers.

Currently, each Enhance server is 5.2 Ghz, water-cooled, 512GB RAM, T700 in RAID-0 with Acronis back-up.

CPU cache running at 4.6 Ghz, full AVX support too, I've even ported my minimal Ubuntu image, completely stripped.

I only have London, Frankfurt, and Dallas with the new 5.2 Ghz setups, but plan to ship more soon to newer locations.

Zoinkies

Zoinkies Just adding onto this, for clarification, I'm not running Enhance directly on metal, I have a virtualised infrastructure on top of metal so I can deal with replication etc to a degree. I have AMD chips at 5.1 Ghz with AVX support for other things apart from Enhance, but the i9 setup is beyond awesome for us.

AdamM

Zoinkies
Amazing infra! I am jealous 🙂
Do customers appreciate your efforts for such high performance or do they not even know about it?
Does the pursuit of performance always make sense? looking at the aspect of failure and availability

8Dweb

Zoinkies the servers you have are awesome. I also run Enhance virtualized for many reasons. I find that even on older AMD EPYC servers, we are still able to put forth some pretty impressive performance. Enjoy that hardware!

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