benchmark for single-threaded vs. multi-threaded memcached

josh rotenberg joshrotenberg at gmail.com
Fri May 18 05:08:10 UTC 2007


I'm not sure how useful a comparison this is since you are comparing
two completely different codebases. If you want a better comparison,
try running your benchmark tool against 1.2.2, built with and without
threads (supported as of this version).

On 5/17/07, liusifan <liusifan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, all
>
> I've make a benchmark for single-threaded vs. multi-threaded
> memcached. The single-threaded program is memcached 1.2.0.
> The multi-threaded program is spcached.
>
> spcached is a server which implements memcached protocol.
> More detail about spcached, please refer its home page:
> http://code.google.com/p/spcached/
>
> Using memcached java client as benchmark tool:
> http://code.google.com/p/spcached/wiki/benchmarktool
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
>              <runs> <start> <port> <threads>
>
> memcached 1.2.0 is a single-threaded event-driven program.
> spcached uses a half-sync/half-async thread pool, it has a main
> thread to process I/O event, and a worker thread to process
> the real request.
>
> The test enviroment is :
> Hardware: DELL 640M ( CPU Intel T2300, RAM 1G )
> Software: windows xp
>           vmware 5.5.1 ( allocate 128M RAM )
>           RedHat 7.2(Kernel 2.4.18-3)
>           memcached 1.2.0
>           spcached svn revision 5 + spserver 0.3 + spdict 0.2
>
> The test steps are:
> 1.restart windows xp and vmware
> 2.limit memcached and spcached both can only keep 185808 objects
> 3.start memcached and MemCachedThreadBench
>   ( the memcached and benchmark tool run on the same vmware )
>   bash$ memcached -m 96
> 4.stop memcached, start spcached and MemCachedThreadBench
>   bash$ spcached -c 185808
>
> The test result is:
>
> For set operation:
> memcached : spcached -- 4000 : 2600 ( > 4 threads )
>
> For get operation:
> memcached : spcached -- 3500 : 2480 ( > 4 threads )
>
> Detail test result:
>
> memcached
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 22642 xxxxx     15   0  100M  60M  5488 S     0.0 49.2  19:27 memcached
>
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 500000 0 11211 1
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  168924          149234
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2959      get - 3350
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 250000 0 11211 2
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  135051          153600
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 3702      get - 3255
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 166666 0 11211 3
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499998  141120          156591
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 3543      get - 3193
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 125000 0 11211 4
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  123370          142169
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4052      get - 3516
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 100000 0 11211 5
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  124111          142147
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4028      get - 3517
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 83333 0 11211 6
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499998  123504          141857
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4048      get - 3524
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 71428 0 11211 7
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499996  124767          142939
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4007      get - 3497
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 62500 0 11211 8
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  124746          142887
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4008      get - 3499
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 55555 0 11211 9
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499995  124821          143278
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4005      get - 3489
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 50000 0 11211 10
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  124865          143082
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 4004      get - 3494
>
> =============================================================================
>
> spcached
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 24536 xxx       15   0 74948  73M   608 S     0.0 59.2  25:31 spcached
>
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 500000 0 11216 1
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  195136          209098
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2562      get - 2391
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 250000 0 11216 2
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  199820          213581
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2502      get - 2341
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 166666 0 11216 3
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499998  190134          203171
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2629      get - 2460
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 125000 0 11216 4
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  189092          202166
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2644      get - 2473
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 100000 0 11216 5
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  189452          200893
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2639      get - 2488
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 83333 0 11216 6
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499998  188704          201101
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2649      get - 2486
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 71428 0 11216 7
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499996  189220          201354
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2642      get - 2483
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 62500 0 11216 8
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  190293          201664
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2627      get - 2479
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 55555 0 11216 9
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            499995  191152          202004
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2615      get - 2475
> --
> bash$ java com/danga/MemCached/test/MemCachedThreadBench
> 50000 0 11216 10
> Thread  start   runs    set time(ms)    get time(ms)
> Main            500000  191352          202574
>         ReqPerSecond    set - 2612      get - 2468
>
>
>  ________________________________
>
> liusifan
> 2007-05-18


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