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Re: Default threads value in OpenLDAP
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
After extensive benchmarking by both Howard & I, it seems the default value
for the threads setting in OpenLDAP (16) is excessive for most hardware.
Unless someone has plenty of CPUs (at least 4+, not counting fake HT CPUs),
slapd performance is significantly improved by running at 8 threads.
Recent tests done by Howard indicated that dropping the number of threads
to 4 on my 2 CPU boxes further improved read performance, but I haven't had
the time to do the corresponding write performance tests to see how they
were impacted. In any case, the "8" value is definitely better for both
read & write performance for 1 & 2 CPU servers (and possibly 4, I just
haven't had one to experiment on). The only time I've found a need to
increase the number of threads was when I was benchmarking the Sun T2000,
which had 32 cores. Given all of this, I'd like to propose that we change
SLAP_MAX_WORKER_THREADS
in slap.h from 16 to 8 for OpenLDAP 2.4.
Thoughts?
I think we should leave this alone until we have read/write test results
to confirm things. Also, our testing was primarily on Linux 2.6; other
platforms may have more efficient thread scheduling.
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-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/