Cooltuner for Solaris Nevada / OpenSolaris? Using T1000 for build server
I'm running some tests on a T1000 with Solaris Nevada b53. I tried to install Cooltuner, but it won't install on a Nevada system. Is there a Nevada version available?
Perhaps the tuning tweaks from Cooltuner have been applied to Solaris Nevada already?
My application is a Solaris build server; the workload consists of
primarily CPU-intensive compiles on a local UFS filesystem without NFS
mounts. I've found that a T1000 behaves pretty much like a 6-core 1GHz
UltraSPARC in this application; CMT doesn't seem to buy a great deal
(about 17-20% in my simple test, which is nothing to sneeze at and a vast
improvement over Intel Hyper-Threading in the same application) but it
clearly indicates that a compilation-intensive workload doesn't scale the
same way a web-server or database-server workload might scale, where
many short-lived threads come and go and thread-switch performance
is at a premium.
Comments?
Thanks -
Dana
