Experiences with Oracle SPARC S7-2 Server
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This document discusses the experiences and insights of Marcel Hofstetter regarding the Oracle SPARC S7-2 server, including its CPU capabilities, memory security features, and benchmarks comparing its performance with previous SPARC models. It highlights Jomasoft's expertise in utilizing SPARC servers for cloud operations and Solaris software development. The document also provides detailed performance statistics and technical comparisons, reinforcing the efficiency of SPARC S7-2 in enterprise applications.
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SPARC – Silicon Secured Memory
void main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *buffer = malloc( sizeof(char) * 10);
strcpy(buffer, "Test-Text");
for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i)
printf( "%c ", buffer[i] );
printf("|n");
free(buffer);
}
/opt/solarisstudio12.4/bin/cc -m64 -g -o buffer_overrun buffer_overrun.c
-bash-4.4$ ./buffer_overrun
T e s t - T e x t |
- X TTTST E E ? P W D](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tech18jomasoftsparcs7-181204171647/85/Experiences-with-Oracle-SPARC-S7-2-Server-8-320.jpg)
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INMEMORY / DAX
Result / 8 Reader / 1 x SPARC S7-core
awr_0w_8r.20181107_165153.txt
DB Name DB Id Unique Name DB Role Edition Release RAC CDB
------------ ----------- ----------- ---------------- ------- ---------- --- ---
SLOB 3718155087 SLOB PRIMARY EE 18.0.0.0.0 NO NO
Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB)
---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ----------
v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00
Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess
--------- ------------------- -------- ---------
Begin Snap: 105 07-Nov-18 16:46:32 44 1.3
End Snap: 106 07-Nov-18 16:51:51 44 1.3
Elapsed: 5.31 (mins)
DB Time: 42.12 (mins)
Load Profile Per Second Per Transaction Per Exec Per Call
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------- --------------- --------- ---------
DB Time(s): 7.9 126.4 0.00 8.15
DB CPU(s): 7.9 125.4 0.00 8.09
Background CPU(s): 0.0 0.5 0.00 0.00
Redo size (bytes): 8,690.5 138,454.2
Logical read (blocks): 125,562,125.4 2,000,411,835.5
Block changes: 42.8 681.1
Physical read (blocks): 0.6 10.1
Physical write (blocks): 3.2 51.2
Read IO requests: 0.3 5.2
Write IO requests: 1.4 22.8
Read IO (MB): 0.0 0.1
Write IO (MB): 0.0 0.4
IM scan rows: 125,536,275.3 2,000,000,000.0
Session Logical Read IM: 125,536,275.3 2,000,000,000.0
User calls: 1.0 15.5
-bash-4.4$ grep offload awr_0w_8r.20181107_165153.txt
Statistic Total per Second per Trans
IM simd compare HW offload calls 4,000,000 12,553.6 200,000.0
IM simd decode unpack HW offload 4,000,000 12,553.6 200,000.0](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tech18jomasoftsparcs7-181204171647/85/Experiences-with-Oracle-SPARC-S7-2-Server-12-320.jpg)
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Result without INMEMORY / DAX
Result / 8 Reader / 1 x SPARC S7-core
awr_0w_8r.20181119_153421.txt
DB Name DB Id Unique Name DB Role Edition Release RAC CDB
------------ ----------- ----------- ---------------- ------- ---------- --- ---
SLOB 3718155087 SLOB PRIMARY EE 18.0.0.0.0 NO NO
Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB)
---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ----------
v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00
Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess
--------- ------------------- -------- ---------
Begin Snap: 277 19-Nov-18 15:21:56 49 .9
End Snap: 278 19-Nov-18 15:34:19 49 1.0
Elapsed: 12.38 (mins)
DB Time: 98.54 (mins)
Load Profile Per Second Per Transaction Per Exec Per Call
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------- --------------- --------- ---------
DB Time(s): 8.0 197.1 0.00 18.95
DB CPU(s): 7.9 195.3 0.00 18.78
Background CPU(s): 0.0 0.6 0.00 0.00
Redo size (bytes): 4,907.6 121,553.6
Logical read (blocks): 1,386,001.4 34,328,851.4
Block changes: 22.2 548.7
Physical read (blocks): 27.3 675.
Physical write (blocks): 1.2 28.9
Read IO requests: 26.7 662.2
Write IO requests: 0.6 13.6
1.3 Mio read anstatt 125 Mio read](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tech18jomasoftsparcs7-181204171647/85/Experiences-with-Oracle-SPARC-S7-2-Server-13-320.jpg)
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INMEMORY / DAX
The 1 core LDOM uses all 4 DAX Units of the SPARC S7
Socket.
Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB)
---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ----------
v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00
-bash-4.4$ daxstat 10
DAX commands fallbacks input output %busy
4 63809 0 106.1M 5.4M 0
5 63810 0 106.1M 5.5M 0
6 63810 0 106.1M 5.4M 0
7 63803 0 106.1M 5.5M 0](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tech18jomasoftsparcs7-181204171647/85/Experiences-with-Oracle-SPARC-S7-2-Server-14-320.jpg)
Experiences with Oracle SPARC S7-2 Server
- 1. 1 Experiences with Oracle SPARC S7-2 Server Marcel Hofstetter [email protected] https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch CEO / Enterprise Consultant JomaSoft GmbH Oracle ACE „Solaris“ V1.0 (04.12.2018)
- 2. 2 Agenda About JomaSoft SPARC S7 CPU & Silicon Secured Memory & DAX SPARC S7-2 Server SPARC S7-2 Server @ JomaSoft SPARC S7 Project
- 3. 3 About JomaSoft Engineering company founded in July 2000 specialized in Solaris and software development, operations and consulting Product VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework) Installation, Management, Operations, Monitoring, Security and DR for Solaris 10/11, Virtualize using LDoms and Solaris Zones VDCF is used in production since 2006
- 4. 4 Marcel Hofstetter Working in IT since 25+ years Solaris since 20 years CEO at JomaSoft GmbH since 18 years International Speaker: Oracle OpenWorld, DOAG, UKOUG, SOUG, AOUG Oracle ACE „Solaris“ https://twitter.com/marcel_jomasoft SOUG (Swiss Oracle User Group) – Speaker of the Year 2016 Hobbies: Family, Travel, Wine & Dine, Movies https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelhofstetter https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch
- 5. 5 Oracle SPARC CPUs compared SPARC M8 (2017) SPARC S7 (2016) SPARC M7 (2015) SPARC T5 (2013) Processor Cores 32 (5th Gen) 8 (4th Gen) 32 (4th Gen) 16 (3rd Gen) Cache per Core 2 MB 2 MB 2 MB 0.5 MB Memory Bandwidth per Core 5.6 GB/sec 6.0 GB/sec 5.3 GB/sec 5.0 GB/sec Memory Access 127ns 97ns 131ns 163ns I/O Bandwidth 145 GB/sec 32 GB/sec 145 GB/sec 32 GB/sec CPU Frequency 5.0 GHz 4.27 GHz 4.13 GHz 3.6 GHz
- 6. 6 Oracle SPARC M7/8 & S7 CPU
- 7. 7 SPARC – Silicon Secured Memory Integrated in SPARC CPU M7/M8 and S7 You detect and prevent - Memory Reference Errors - Buffer Overruns - Memory Usage after free Alternatives in Software are expensive and 30x – 70x slower Oracle Developer Studio Compiler includes Support for Discovery at Development Demo Video about OpenSSL Heartbleed https://swisdev.oracle.com/_files/ADI-Demo.html
- 8. 8 SPARC – Silicon Secured Memory void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *buffer = malloc( sizeof(char) * 10); strcpy(buffer, "Test-Text"); for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i) printf( "%c ", buffer[i] ); printf("|n"); free(buffer); } /opt/solarisstudio12.4/bin/cc -m64 -g -o buffer_overrun buffer_overrun.c -bash-4.4$ ./buffer_overrun T e s t - T e x t | - X TTTST E E ? P W D
- 9. 9 SPARC – Silicon Secured Memory With SSM (ADI) activated the Program is stopped and can't access foreign Memory. -bash-4.4$ LD_PRELOAD_64=/lib/64/libadimalloc.so.1 ./buffer_overrun Segmentation Fault (core dumped) -bash-4.4$ echo ::status | mdb core debugging core file of buffer_overrun (64-bit) from g0072 file: /export/home/marcel/buffer_overrun initial argv: ./buffer_overrun threading model: native threads status: process terminated by SIGSEGV (Segmentation Fault), pc=100000bb0 , ADI version d mismatch for VA ffffffff7e93ffc0
- 10. 10 SPARC – Silicon Secured Memory Detailed Results when using the Compiler Libraries LD_PRELOAD_64=/opt/developerstudio12.5/lib/compilers/sparcv9/libdiscoverADI.so ./ buffer_overrun T e s t - T e x t |
- 11. 11 INMEMORY / DAX Test Setup using SLOB SQL> show parameter inmemory_size NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ inmemory_size big integer 1G SQL> ALTER TABLE USER1.CF1 INMEMORY; Table altered. SQL> select count(*) from USER1.CF1; COUNT(*) ---------- 10000
- 12. 12 INMEMORY / DAX Result / 8 Reader / 1 x SPARC S7-core awr_0w_8r.20181107_165153.txt DB Name DB Id Unique Name DB Role Edition Release RAC CDB ------------ ----------- ----------- ---------------- ------- ---------- --- --- SLOB 3718155087 SLOB PRIMARY EE 18.0.0.0.0 NO NO Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB) ---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ---------- v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00 Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess --------- ------------------- -------- --------- Begin Snap: 105 07-Nov-18 16:46:32 44 1.3 End Snap: 106 07-Nov-18 16:51:51 44 1.3 Elapsed: 5.31 (mins) DB Time: 42.12 (mins) Load Profile Per Second Per Transaction Per Exec Per Call ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------- --------------- --------- --------- DB Time(s): 7.9 126.4 0.00 8.15 DB CPU(s): 7.9 125.4 0.00 8.09 Background CPU(s): 0.0 0.5 0.00 0.00 Redo size (bytes): 8,690.5 138,454.2 Logical read (blocks): 125,562,125.4 2,000,411,835.5 Block changes: 42.8 681.1 Physical read (blocks): 0.6 10.1 Physical write (blocks): 3.2 51.2 Read IO requests: 0.3 5.2 Write IO requests: 1.4 22.8 Read IO (MB): 0.0 0.1 Write IO (MB): 0.0 0.4 IM scan rows: 125,536,275.3 2,000,000,000.0 Session Logical Read IM: 125,536,275.3 2,000,000,000.0 User calls: 1.0 15.5 -bash-4.4$ grep offload awr_0w_8r.20181107_165153.txt Statistic Total per Second per Trans IM simd compare HW offload calls 4,000,000 12,553.6 200,000.0 IM simd decode unpack HW offload 4,000,000 12,553.6 200,000.0
- 13. 13 Result without INMEMORY / DAX Result / 8 Reader / 1 x SPARC S7-core awr_0w_8r.20181119_153421.txt DB Name DB Id Unique Name DB Role Edition Release RAC CDB ------------ ----------- ----------- ---------------- ------- ---------- --- --- SLOB 3718155087 SLOB PRIMARY EE 18.0.0.0.0 NO NO Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB) ---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ---------- v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00 Snap Id Snap Time Sessions Curs/Sess --------- ------------------- -------- --------- Begin Snap: 277 19-Nov-18 15:21:56 49 .9 End Snap: 278 19-Nov-18 15:34:19 49 1.0 Elapsed: 12.38 (mins) DB Time: 98.54 (mins) Load Profile Per Second Per Transaction Per Exec Per Call ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------- --------------- --------- --------- DB Time(s): 8.0 197.1 0.00 18.95 DB CPU(s): 7.9 195.3 0.00 18.78 Background CPU(s): 0.0 0.6 0.00 0.00 Redo size (bytes): 4,907.6 121,553.6 Logical read (blocks): 1,386,001.4 34,328,851.4 Block changes: 22.2 548.7 Physical read (blocks): 27.3 675. Physical write (blocks): 1.2 28.9 Read IO requests: 26.7 662.2 Write IO requests: 0.6 13.6 1.3 Mio read anstatt 125 Mio read
- 14. 14 INMEMORY / DAX The 1 core LDOM uses all 4 DAX Units of the SPARC S7 Socket. Host Name Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory(GB) ---------------- -------------------------------- ---- ----- ------- ---------- v0133 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) 8 1 1 16.00 -bash-4.4$ daxstat 10 DAX commands fallbacks input output %busy 4 63809 0 106.1M 5.4M 0 5 63810 0 106.1M 5.5M 0 6 63810 0 106.1M 5.4M 0 7 63803 0 106.1M 5.5M 0
- 15. 15 INMEMORY / DAX 8 core LDOM - compressed and uncompressed compared compressed (low) 130 MB uncompressed 560 MB
- 16. 16 Oracle SPARC S7 Server S7-2 S7-2L CPU 1-2 2 Cores 8/16 16 Threads 64/128 128 Max Memory 1 TB 1 TB Size 1 RU 2 RU PCI Slots 3 x PCIe 3.0 6 x PCIe 3.0
- 17. 17 Oracle SPARC S7-2 Server S7-2 small S7-2 medium CPU 2 2 Cores 16 16 Disk 2 x 600 GB 2 x 600 GB Memory 128 GB 512 GB Price ca. 11K £ ca. 19K £
- 18. 18 SPARC – Single Thread Performance
- 19. 19 Benchmark done by Oracle SPECjEnterprise2010 (Java App & DB Server) SPARC S7-2 / 512 GB 16 cores 14,400 EjOPS 900 OPS per Core Oracle X6-2 / 256 GB 44 cores 27'800 EjOPS 631 OPS per Core SPARC S7 43% better result at core to core compare Details: https://blogs.oracle.com/bestperf/specjenterprise2010:-sparc-s7-2-secure-and-unsecure-results https://www.spec.org/jEnterprise2010/results/jEnterprise2010.html
- 20. 20 Benchmark done by Oracle SPECjEnterprise2010 (Java App & DB Server) SPARC S7-2 / 512 GB 16 cores 14,400 EjOPS 900 OPS per Core Oracle X6-2 / 256 GB 44 cores 27'800 EjOPS 631 OPS per Core SPARC S7 43% better result at core to core compare Details: https://blogs.oracle.com/bestperf/specjenterprise2010:-sparc-s7-2-secure-and-unsecure-results https://www.spec.org/jEnterprise2010/results/jEnterprise2010.html 19K £ 14K £ Think about App & DB Licenses Less core, less cost
- 21. 21 JomaSoft Development T4 → S7 T4-1 S7-2 CPU 1 2 Cores 8 16 Freq 2.85 GHz 4.27 GHz Memory 32 GB 128 GB VDCF Application performance: 2x (Ldom with 1 Core used) 7 years old, works like a charm 7 years old, works like a charm
- 22. 22 JomaSoft Development & Test
- 23. 23 JomaSoft Development & Test
- 24. 24 Hardware Life Cycle Project Perfect starting point, because Customer already used Zones Done : - Setup of 2 x S7-2L - Zones Migration from 4 x M5000 Domains into 4 new LDoms Duration: 6 days Migration in both directions
- 25. 25 Experiences with Oracle SPARC S7-2 Server Questions? Marcel Hofstetter [email protected] https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch CEO / Enterprise Consultant JomaSoft GmbH Oracle ACE „Solaris“ https://twitter.com/marcel_jomasoft https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelhofstetter
- 26. 26 My second Session at #UKOUG_TECH18 What is Delivered with Solaris 11.4? Wednesday, 5.12. 11:40