Jasper:

Thanks!  Unfortunately it looks like our problems are different — mine began 
with CentOS 7.7, while you seem to be fine with 7.9 and are only seeing issues 
with CentOS 8 (if I understand you correctly).

The problem I’m seeing is very poor performance  — network transfers at 6KB/s 
(vs. 500K-1MB/s) — and appears to be specific to Samba.  What is odd is that 
the exact same configuration runs fine if I boot with an earlier version of the 
kernel (-957 or below).

It’s nevertheless possible that the two issues are related — if I’m able to 
come up with any clues, I’ll be sure to post them back here.

Thanks again for the help!

Bill

> On Apr 9, 2022, at 8:03 PM, Jasper Jaspers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Here’s the info you requested. What issues are you seeing?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> RHEL 7:
>> 
>>    uname -a
>> 
>>       Linux cas00 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.oe.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 19:15:21 
>> EST 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>    lsb_release -a
>> 
>>       LSB Version: 
>> :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch
>> 
>>       Distributor ID:             RedHatEnterpriseServer
>> 
>>       Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
>> 
>>       Release:        7.9
>> 
>>       Codename:  Maipo
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> RHEL8:
>> 
>>    uname -a
>> 
>>       Linux cas00 4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 17 07:06:06 
>> EST 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>    lsb_release -a
>> 
>>       LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
>> 
>>       Distributor ID: RedHatEnterprise
>> 
>>       Description:    Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)
>> 
>>       Release:        8.5
>> 
>>       Codename:       Ootp
>> 
> 
> On Saturday, April 9, 2022, Bill Torpey <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Jasper:
> 
> I’d be VERY interested in knowing what version of RH7 you’re running:
> 
> uname -a
> 
> lsb_release -a
> 
> I’m seeing weird network performance on CentOS 7, as of kernel version 1062 
> (part of 7.7) —earlier kernel version 957 (part of 7.6) is fine.
> 
> Curious if that’s related to what you are seeing.  I’ve been trying to run 
> this down for a while, and any clues would be most welcome.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bill
> 
> > On Apr 8, 2022, at 9:56 PM, Jasper Jaspers <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> > I’m noticing a difference in performance between zeromq running on Linux 
> > RHEL7 and RHEL8. I’m running with zmq version 4.3.4. 
> > 
> > I have a sample program to replicate the issues were seeing on our full 
> > system. The application uses a simple REQ/REP pattern with an INPROC 
> > socket.  The client repeatedly (every 50 milliseconds) sends 3 message 
> > parts ( 100, 200, and 500000 bytes) and then waits for the reply. The 
> > server receives the message parts and sends a basic reply message of 1 byte 
> > back. I’m also changing the thread policy/priority (SCHED_FIFO) to minimize 
> > latency due to other things running on the node. Im capturing the time it 
> > takes for each client transaction to complete. 
> > 
> > When this is only app running on the node each message transaction takes 
> > about 1-10 microseconds. 
> > 
> >  To simulate other lower priority load on the node I’m running a 
> > compilation which puts a bunch of cpu usage on every core. When this is 
> > running in the background I’m seeing a difference between RHEL7 and RHEL8. 
> > 
> > Here’s results from running test for about 10 minutes:
> > 
> > On RHEL7 I saw 5 transactions that took over 1 milliseconds, with the 
> > highest being 2.5 milliseconds. 
> > 
> > On RHEL8 I saw about 100 transactions that took over 1 milliseconds with 
> > most around 10 milliseconds and the highest around 20 milliseconds. 
> > 
> > After seeing this I looked into where the time was being spent and found 
> > that for each transaction above 1 milliseconds all the time was spent in 
> > the client’s zmq_rcvmsg call waiting for the reply. 
> > 
> > Given that the application is running with real time priority I wouldn’t 
> > expect there to be that much additional latency due to other lower priority 
> > applications running on the node.  Do you agree with that assessment? And 
> > if so do you think the issue is within zmq or within the Linux OS?  Given 
> > that this works much better in RHEL7 I’ll leaning toward the OS. If so, any 
> > ideas what I could look for, or do you suggest contacting red hat directly 
> > for support ?
> > 
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