Production Server migrated from 2.8 to 3.1
I focus on budget, high performance Moodle installations and setups.
Hardware:
CPU - i7-980x (6c/12th)
RAM - 24Gb DDR3
SSD - 2x - 128Gb Samsung 850 Pro - Raid 0
HHD - 2x - 1.5Tb - Raid 1
Amazon S3 offsite storage
System:
Ubuntu 16.04
Nginx 1.10
PHP 7
MySQL 5.7.13
Ram Disk - 4Gb
Average Benchmark is about 70 points.
Hi,
First of all I want to thank Mickaël PANNEQUIN for developing this great plugin, it's been really helpful to detect and fix performance issues.
The server I have several Moodle instances installed on is this:
I've realized that having the same BD, web server and storage configuration in all the instances doesn't make them get the same score, seems like the Moodle configuration on each one has also great impact, but it's not trivial to know which these settings are.
For example: I've detected that having several authentication plugins enabled makes the last two tests slower, but one of the instances gets slower scores in tests 3 & 4 and another one in the first one and I have still no clue about why is this happening, do you know what can it be?
| # | Description | Time in seconds | Acceptable limit | Critical limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moodle loading time Run the configuration file «config.php» |
0.010 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| 2 | Function called many times A function is called in a loop to test processor speed |
0.152 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| 3 | Reading files Test the read speed in Moodle's temporary folder |
0.011 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| 4 | Creating files Test the write speed in Moodle's temporary folder |
34.197 | 1 | 1.25 |
| 5 | Reading course Test the read speed to read a course |
0.121 | 0.75 | 1 |
| 6 | Writing course Test the database speed to write a course |
0.023 | 1 | 1.25 |
| 7 | Complex request (n°1) Test the database speed to execute a complex request |
0.070 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| 8 | Complex request (n°2) Test the database speed to execute a complex request |
0.141 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| 9 | Time to connect with the guest account Measuring the time to load the login page with the guest account |
0.460 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| 10 | Time to connect with a fake user account Measuring the time to load the login page with a fake user account |
0.300 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| Total time | 35.485 sec. | |||
| Score | 3549 points | |||
Thanks for a great plugin.
What do you thin could improve my performance?
Thanks,
Hi,
We've recently changed our Moodle server and moved from a physical server to a virtual server over VMware, these are the new servers' HW & SW:
Hardware (virtual over VMware)
60 GB dedicated RAM
16 CPU dedicated cores (over 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 @ 2.30 GHz physical processors)
Storage: OS, database and MoodleData on a NetApp (20 * 900 GB SAS disks with 1.34TB SSD flash pool) over 10 GbE connection
temp, cache and localcache stored on RAM with tmpfs
Software:
Ubuntu 18.04 Server
Apache + PHP-FPM + OPCache (PHP 7.2)
Postgresql 10.6
Sessions on Redis
Moodle 3.5.5
We're getting around 70 points in average, this is one of the best scores:
