test the IOPS, throughput, and access latency of local disks on an i4p instance - Elastic Compute Service

The i4p performance-enhanced instance family with local SSDs provides ultra-high-performance local disks based on second-generation Intel® Optane Persistent Memory. This topic describes how to test the performance metrics of local disks, including IOPS, throughput, and access latency, on an i4p instance.

For information about the i4p instance family, see Instance families with local SSDs.

Prerequisites

An i4p instance is created, and the local disks on the instance are initialized. For information about how to initialize the local disks, see the Configure persistent memory as a local disk section in the "Configure the usage mode of persistent memory" topic.

Warning

To prevent data loss, we recommend that you purchase an i4p instance that does not have data and use tools to test the performance of local disks on the instance.

Procedure

Connect to the i4p instance.
For more information, see Connect to an instance by using VNC.

Run the following command to install fio:

sudo yum install -y ndctl daxctl ipmctl libpmem librpmem libpmemblk libpmemlog libpmemobj libpmempool pmempool fio

Run commands to test the performance of the local disks.
For information about the sample commands, see the Test IOPS, Test throughput, and Test access latency sections in this topic.
Note
If you consecutively perform tests, run the sudo rm /mnt/sdb/* -rf command after each test to delete the residual results of the previous test on the local disks and prepare a clean environment for the next test.

Test IOPS

Test the sequential read IOPS of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=8 --iodepth=1 --rw=read --bs=4k --size=8GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the sequential write IOPS of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=8 --iodepth=1 --rw=write --bs=4k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the random read IOPS of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=8 --iodepth=1 --rw=randread --bs=4k --size=8GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the random write IOPS of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=8 --iodepth=1 --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test throughput

Test the sequential read throughput of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=96 --iodepth=1 --rw=read --bs=64k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the sequential write throughput of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=1 --numjobs=8 --iodepth=1 --rw=write --bs=64k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the random read throughput of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=96 --iodepth=1 --rw=randread --bs=64k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the random write throughput of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=8 --numjobs=96 --iodepth=1 --rw=randwrite --bs=64k --size=1GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test access latency

Test the sequential read latency of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=1 --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --rw=read --bs=4k --size=8GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split

Test the sequential write latency of the local disks

sudo fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/sdb --ioengine=libpmem --direct=1 --thread=1 --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --rw=write --bs=4k --size=8GB --norandommap=1 --randrepeat=0 --invalidate=1 --iodepth_batch=1 --sync=1 --scramble_buffers=0 --numa_cpu_nodes=0 --numa_mem_policy=bind:0 --cpus_allowed_policy=split