From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benoit Lourdelet Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iproute: Faster ip link add, set and delete Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:27:44 +0000 Message-ID: References: <874nfwri6o.fsf@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: Serge Hallyn , Stephen Hemminger , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from exprod7og129.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.122]:33482 "EHLO exprod7og129.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752893Ab3C1UdH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:33:07 -0400 Received: from mail121-co1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail121-co1-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888ED7C018B for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:27:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <874nfwri6o.fsf@xmission.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Eric, I am running simple containers (2 network interfaces, 10MB of RAM, default routing) and want to test scalability. Out test platform is a 32x 2Ghz cores x86. Regards Benoit On 27/03/2013 16:11, "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: >Benoit Lourdelet writes: > >> Hello Serge, >> >> I am indeed using Eric patch with lxc. >> >> It solves the initial problem of slowness to start around 1600 >> containers. > >Good so now we just need a production ready patch for iproute. > >> I am now able to start more than 2000 without having new containers >> slower and slower to start. > >May I ask how large a box you are running and how complex your >containers are. I am trying to get a feel for how common it is likely >to be to find people running thousands of containers on a single >machine. > >Eric >