Performance and scalability data
This topic provides information about performance, scalability, and reliability test results for PATROL for Log Management version 2.7.30.x.
Minimum hardware requirements
The tests are done on the following hardware components and BMC considers these as the minimum hardware requirements to achieve the numbers in the scaling table below:
Component | Details |
|---|---|
Processor | 2 processors, 2.30GHz |
RAM | 8.00 GB |
System type | 64-bit Operating System |
Scalability and sizing best practices
The table below provides information about the tested configuration scenarios on both Windows and Linux environments:
Scenario | Number of files | File size | New content size | Latest/All | pmgreader process | PATROL Agent process | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPU usage | Memory usage in MB | CPU usage | Memory usage in MB | |||||
1 | 10000 | ~1 MB | ~1 KB | Latest | ~0.4 % | ~8 | ~0.3 % | ~30 |
2 | 1000 | ~1 MB | ~1 KB | All | ~0.6 % | ~12 | ~2.5 % | ~52 |
3 | 1000 | ~10 MB | ~1 KB | Latest | ~0.4 % | ~6 | ~0.3 % | ~30 |
4 | 100 | ~10 MB | ~1 KB | All | ~0.5 % | ~10 | ~2.2 % | ~38 |
5 | 100 | ~100 MB | ~1 KB | Latest | ~0.3 % | ~5 | ~0.4 % | ~30 |
6 | 50 | ~100 MB | ~1 KB | All | ~0.4 % | ~9 | ~2.0 % | ~32 |
7 | 60 | ~500 MB | ~1 MB | Latest | ~0.2 % | ~3 | ~0.5 % | ~30 |
8 | 30 | ~500 MB | ~1 MB | All | ~0.2 % | ~6 | ~2.0 % | ~32 |
9 | 20 | ~2 GB | ~1 MB | Latest | ~0.1 % | ~3 | ~0.5 % | ~30 |
10 | 10 | ~2 GB | ~1 MB | All | ~0.2 % | ~4 | ~1.8 % | ~30 |
File size: The log file size that is being monitored.
Number of files: Number of log files that is being monitored at the same time.
Latest/All: File disposition
New content size: The new content that has been written to each log file for each collection interval.
We have tested each scenario separately (only a single scenario has been tested each time).
For example, consider the scenario 1, here in this scenario we have created a setup of 10,000 log files in the same folder. The setup was configured to monitor the latest files. Each of the log files was of 1 MB.
The collection interval was for 2 minutes. For each collection interval, a new content was added with a size of 1 KB. That is for every 2 minutes; the file size was increased to 1025 KB, similarly, for 4 minutes the file size was 1026 KB and so on.