Process creation is slower on 2 vCPUs than on a single vCPU by UnixBench test
Issue
- 1 vCPU shows higher index score than 2 vCPUs for process spawning
- 1 vCPU test
[root@localhost UnixBench]# ./Run spawn -c 1
...
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: localhost: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 -- #1 SMP Tue Jan 29 11:47:41 EST 2013
Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz (5187.5 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
19:39:46 up 8 days, 5:23, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Fri Jul 03 2015 19:39:46 - 19:41:26
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Process Creation 10511.9 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Process Creation 126.0 10511.9 834.3
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 834.3
- 2 vCPUs test
[root@localhost UnixBench]# ./Run spawn -c 1
...
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: localhost: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 -- #1 SMP Tue Jan 29 11:47:41 EST 2013
Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz (5187.5 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz (5187.5 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
19:49:08 up 2 min, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.02; runlevel 3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Fri Jul 03 2015 19:49:08 - 19:50:47
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Process Creation 4043.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Process Creation 126.0 4043.0 320.9
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 320.9
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- VMware guest with 1 vCPU or 2 vCPUs
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