On Jan 14, 2014 2:47 AM, "Eugene Zelenko" eugene.zelenko@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I think will be good idea to try to get access to real hardware.
For example, Boston (http://www.boston.co.uk) produces Calxeda-based servers and well as HP has experimental Calxeda and X-Gene based cartridges for Moonshot servers (http://www.hp.com/moonshot).
Both provide remote access to own servers for trials.
Eugene.
I don't know much about this bare metal stuff, but everyone who does seems to be saying the same thing on this list: ARM architecture is awesome, and also a bad fit for us as it will harm performance, and possibly not even save energy by doing so. Can't we just thank James for coming up with an idea that seemed good, and drop the thread because it turns out it won't work for us?
Martijn h.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 14/01/14 10:55, George Herbert wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org
wrote:
In fact, it would slow down individual requests by a factor of 7, judging by the benchmarks of Calxeda and Xeon CPUs at
http://www.eembc.org/coremark/index.php
So instead of a 10s parse time, you would have 70s. Obviously that's not tolerable.
Question - is that 10s linear CPU core time for a parse, or 10s of
average
response time given our workloads?
Just an arbitrary number chosen to be within the range of CPU times for slower articles. On average, it is much faster than that.
For actual data, you could look at:
http://tstarling.com/stuff/featured-parse-boxplot.png
If it is the linear one-core parse processing time, how much of that is dependencies on DB lookups and the like, externalities within the infrastructure rather than the straight-line CPU time needed for the
parse
itself?
WikitextContent::getParserOutput() profiles at around 1.25s real and 1.17s CPU.
-- Tim Starling
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