Scaling-out WordPress – Performance Measures – CPU and RAM influence on the fronts

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CPU & RAM influence

Results overview

Raw throughput of a WordPress web site and influence of cpu and memory on the front

In order to evaluate the expected performance of a WordPress web site, I first decided to focus on a single front and to play with the CPU and MEMORY resources of the front.

To be sure that no other bottlenecks appear (such as the database server resources  -CPU, MEMORY, IO – or the network resources), I was continually checking the performance counters on the database server and on the front server with commands such as iostat, vmstat, top and iftop for the network during the workload. After a while, I found the perfect command dstat that shows all counters for CPU, IO and MEMORY from just one command line.

To quickly evaluate the speed (throughput) of the web site, I decided to use the apache tool ab that gives a very useful indicator in req/s.
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Scaling-out WordPress – Introduction

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This post is the first one of a series about scaling out WordPress.

Goals

The purpose of this series of posts can be summarized as followed:

  • Experiment the different bricks (load-balancer haproxy, mysql replica, session sharing)
  • What kind of performance increase we can expect ? Is the performance increase linear with the number of web fronts?
  • What will be the bottlenecks ?
  • What kind of tools can we easily use to stress the application ?
  • What kind of tools can we easily use to measure the performance metrics  ?

Plan

Configuration
Software installation
Performance Measures

to come :
Sessions sharing
Read replica
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