Results of latency test, list of computers tested for use with LinuxCNC

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08 Oct 2021 16:27 #222560 by radom
ok, I added isolcpus=1 noirqbalance and it looks like latency is half of what it was before

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29 Oct 2021 07:07 #224630 by zfa
Hi, my ITX-ASRock880GXH with one onboard Parport and one PCIe Parport:
LinuxCNC pc tests, version 20200930, started 14.10.2021 11:00:13
********************************************************************************
General info:
ASRock,  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Bios version P1.30, dated 05/04/2018
Chipset: Harddisk is non-rotational, ie. SSD
The amount of swap currently used is 0
================================================================================
CPU related data:
model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4005 CPU @ 2.00GHz
cpu cores    : 2
stepping    : 1
cache size    : 4096 KB
================================================================================
RAM related data:
Maximum Capacity: 256 GB
Maximum Voltage: 1.5 V
Maximum Voltage: Unknown
Size: 4096 MB
Size: No Module Installed
================================================================================
GPU related data:
product: UHD Graphics 605
configuration: latency=0
================================================================================
Parallel port related data:
number of parallel ports is 2
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
parport1: PC-style at 0xe010 (0xe000), irq 22 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
================================================================================
Os and desktop related data:
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 20.2"

Should the info below not match with your machine,
kindly post the output of pstree here, including a brief
desciption of your desktop environment, window manager and
display manager. Tia
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/39370-script-for-automated-testing-of-computer-latency

Desktop environment : lightdm
Windowmanager       : Xfwm4
Displaymanager      : lightdm
================================================================================
Kernel related data:
Kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-rt-amd64
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset isolcpus=1"
Cpu idle driver: intel_idle
================================================================================
Kernel modules data:
Check if pcspkr is loaded: No, which is good!
Check if snd modules are loaded: No, which is good!
================================================================================
Keyboard & Mouse related data:
Number of mice: 1
Mouse 0 : Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
Mice  attached to USB:
Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Keyboards attached to USB:
================================================================================
LinuxCNC related data:
LinuxCNC version is: 2.8.2.52.ga5f8e5cc0
================================================================================
Preparing for latency test:
Started glxgears No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
..........
Started firefox with 'https://vimeo.com/150574260', WID 60817451
================================================================================
Command for latency test is:
su rb -c  "latency-histogram --bbinsize 1000 --base 50000 --sbinsize 1000 --nox 2>&1 | tee -a 50k.lat &"

Latency testing loop started Thu 14 Oct 2021 11:00:33 AM CEST,
should end after Thu 14 Oct 2021 01:00:33 PM CEST

================================================================================
Swap useage: prerun: 0, running: 0

================================================================================
CPU core temperatures:
Core 0: Tmin: 40.0°C, Tmax: 49.0°C, (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: Tmin: 41.0°C, Tmax: 49.0°C, (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:.
 7202 secs  servo min: -19.300 uS max:  18.000 uS sdev:   0.600 uS
 7204 secs   base min: -30.000 uS max:  32.400 uS sdev:   1.300 uS
LinuxCNC pc tests, version 20200930, started 27.10.2021 09:11:47
********************************************************************************
General info:
ASRock,  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Bios version P1.30, dated 05/04/2018
Chipset: Harddisk is non-rotational, ie. SSD
The amount of swap currently used is 0
================================================================================
CPU related data:
model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4005 CPU @ 2.00GHz
cpu cores    : 2
stepping    : 1
cache size    : 4096 KB
================================================================================
RAM related data:
Maximum Capacity: 256 GB
Maximum Voltage: 1.5 V
Maximum Voltage: Unknown
Size: 4096 MB
Size: No Module Installed
================================================================================
GPU related data:
product: UHD Graphics 605
configuration: latency=0
================================================================================
Parallel port related data:
number of parallel ports is 2
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
parport1: PC-style at 0xe010 (0xe000), irq 22 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
================================================================================
Os and desktop related data:
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 20.2"

Should the info below not match with your machine,
kindly post the output of pstree here, including a brief
desciption of your desktop environment, window manager and
display manager. Tia
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/39370-script-for-automated-testing-of-computer-latency

Desktop environment : lightdm
Windowmanager       : Xfwm4
Displaymanager      : lightdm
================================================================================
Kernel related data:
Kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-rt-amd64
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet isolcpus=1 nomodeset mitigations=off intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 idle=poll acpi_irq_nobalance noirqbalance"
Cpu idle driver: none
================================================================================
Kernel modules data:
Check if pcspkr is loaded: No, which is good!
Check if snd modules are loaded: No, which is good!
================================================================================
Keyboard & Mouse related data:
Number of mice: 1
Mouse 0 : Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
Mice  attached to USB:
Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Keyboards attached to USB:
Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd KU-0833 Keyboard
================================================================================
LinuxCNC related data:
LinuxCNC version is: 2.8.2.53.gab788522d
================================================================================
Preparing for latency test:
Started glxgears No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
..........
Started firefox with 'https://vimeo.com/150574260', WID
================================================================================
Command for latency test is:
su rb -c  "latency-histogram --bbinsize 1000 --base 50000 --sbinsize 1000 --nox 2>&1 | tee -a 50k.lat &"

Latency testing loop started Wed 27 Oct 2021 09:12:07 AM CEST,
should end after Wed 27 Oct 2021 11:12:07 AM CEST

================================================================================
Swap useage: prerun: 0, running: 0

================================================================================
CPU core temperatures:
Core 0: Tmin: 34.0°C, Tmax: 49.0°C, (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: Tmin: 34.0°C, Tmax: 49.0°C, (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:.
 7203 secs   base min: -23.500 uS max:  24.300 uS sdev:   0.300 uS
 7203 secs  servo min: -15.600 uS max:  16.200 uS sdev:   0.600 uS

The "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" I copied from other users in this thread, with the option "nomodeset" I could  get rid the graphic driver, with this I got better results for driving a machine with parport.
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05 Jan 2022 00:30 #230815 by seuchato

Hi, my ITX-ASRock880GXH with one onboard Parport and one PCIe Parport:
...
CPU related data:
model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4005 CPU @ 2.00GHz
...
================================================================================
Parallel port related data:
number of parallel ports is 2
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
parport1: PC-style at 0xe010 (0xe000), irq 22 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
================================================================================
Os and desktop related data:
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 20.2"
...
================================================================================
Kernel related data:
Kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-rt-amd64
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset isolcpus=1"
Cpu idle driver: intel_idle
================================================================================
...
================================================================================
Command for latency test is:
su rb -c  "latency-histogram --bbinsize 1000 --base 50000 --sbinsize 1000 --nox 2>&1 | tee -a 50k.lat &"
...
================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:.
 7202 secs  servo min: -19.300 uS max:  18.000 uS sdev:   0.600 uS
 7204 secs   base min: -30.000 uS max:  32.400 uS sdev:   1.300 uS
LinuxCNC pc tests, version 20200930, started 27.10.2021 09:11:47
********************************************************************************
...


================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:.
 7203 secs   base min: -23.500 uS max:  24.300 uS sdev:   0.300 uS
 7203 secs  servo min: -15.600 uS max:  16.200 uS sdev:   0.600 uS
 

To me, that looks very good, indeed!
Greez
Chris

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27 Jan 2022 23:16 #233326 by arvidb
Another data point:

I got a used Lenovo Thinkcentre M710q Tiny i3-7100T via Ebay thinking it might be a neat LinuxCNC computer.

This is with SpeedStep, Hyper Threading, and audio disabled in BIOS, but with C1E+C3+C6 enabled (disabling these didn't seem to make much of a difference, if any). "Trusted computing", Secure boot, and all the Intel Management stuff is disabled too.

The OS is Debian 11.2 with RT_PREEMP kernel 5.10.0-11-rt-amd64 (installed using packages linux-image-rt-amd64 and linux-headers-rt-amd64). I've installed iwlwifi firmware from non-free repo and WiFi is enabled in BIOS, but was't used during this test.

The test below is without isolcpus; adding isolcpus=1 seems to reduce the latency to about 80 µs.

I also spent some time removing unused kernel modules and re-testing but it made no real difference.

Sorry, only had the patience to run the test for about 20 minutes...
LinuxCNC pc tests, version 20200930, started 27.01.2022 23:47:11
********************************************************************************
General info:
LENOVO,  10MR00xxxx
Bios version M1AKT28A, dated 09/13/2017
Chipset: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 
Harddisk is non-rotational, ie. SSD
The amount of swap currently used is 0
================================================================================
CPU related data:
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100T CPU @ 3.40GHz
cpu cores	: 2
stepping	: 9
cache size	: 3072 KB
================================================================================
RAM related data: (single 8 GiB DDR4 SO-DIMM)
================================================================================
GPU related data:
product: HD Graphics 630
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
================================================================================
Parallel port related data:
number of parallel ports is 0
================================================================================
Os and desktop related data:
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"

Should the info below not match with your machine,
kindly post the output of pstree here, including a brief
desciption of your desktop environment, window manager and
display manager. Tia
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/39370-script-for-automated-testing-of-computer-latency

Desktop environment : lightdm (actually Xfce4)
Windowmanager       : Xfwm4
Displaymanager      : lightdm
================================================================================
Kernel related data:
Kernel 5.10.0-11-rt-amd64
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
Cpu idle driver: intel_idle
================================================================================
Kernel modules data:
Check if pcspkr is loaded: No, which is good!
Check if snd modules are loaded: No, which is good!
================================================================================
Keyboard & Mouse related data:
Number of mice: 1
Mouse 0 : Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000
Mice  attached to USB:
Microsoft Corp. Comfort Optical Mouse 1000
Keyboards attached to USB:
Elan Microelectronics Corp. ActiveJet K-2024 Multimedia Keyboard
================================================================================
LinuxCNC related data:
LinuxCNC version is: 2.9-pre (7b27504b...)
================================================================================
Preparing for latency test:
Started glxgears No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
..........
Started firefox with 'https://vimeo.com/150574260', WID 65011800
================================================================================
Command for latency test is:
latency-histogram --nobase  --sbinsize 1000 --nox 2>&1 | tee -a 1643323630.lat &
should end after fre 28 jan 2022 01:47:22 CET

Latency testing loop started tor 27 jan 2022 23:47:22 CET, 

Manual termination requested at 28.01.2022 00:08:02 

================================================================================
Swap useage: prerun: 0, running: 0

================================================================================
CPU core temperatures:
Core 0: Tmin: 41.0°C, Tmax: 58.0°C, (high = +76.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
Core 1: Tmin: 42.0°C, Tmax: 58.0°C, (high = +76.0°C, crit = +92.0°C)
================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:
 1238 s  servo min:-117.300 us max: 116.900 us sdev:  11.300 us
 1239 s  servo min:-117.300 us max: 116.900 us sdev:  11.300 us
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27 Jan 2022 23:47 - 27 Jan 2022 23:48 #233327 by arvidb
The same system with isolcpus=1 (and noirqbalance, but the latter doesn't seem to make a noticeable difference). The "standard" vimeo video was running, as well as a YouTube video.
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Last edit: 27 Jan 2022 23:48 by arvidb.
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02 Feb 2022 14:17 - 02 Feb 2022 14:36 #233799 by deus
Hi ,I am currently testing my Intel NUC7i5BNH which I plan to use with a MESA 7i76E.

First, I needed to change from nm-tray to network manager as I got a long list of icons on the top right:
sudo apt remove nm-tray
sudo apt install network-manager-gnome

Subsequently, I tried everything under the sun to get the latency down:

I disabled pretty much everything in the BIOS such as CPU related options (power saving, hyper-threading, turbo boost, 1 core only), any devices that are not needed (bluetooth, audio, microphone) and set the energy management to max performance. The only thing that I did not disabled (which I believe may affect latency according to other posts) is cooling, LAN and wireless which I intend to use during operations. But even when I switched them off they didn't seem to have a great impact on the latency.

I also added a long list of grub commands:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet transparent_hugepage=never splash mitigations=off isolcpus=1 acpi_irq_nobalance noirqbalance lapic nohlt idle=poll radeon.modeset=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 ipv6.disable=1 pci=routeirq"

I  added 'vm.swappiness=0' to /etc/sysctl.conf

I added 'hardware−irq−coalesce−rx−usecs 0' to /etc/network/interfaces

I used the following command to avoid any sleep modes:
'sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target'

My latest latency data is below!
If anybody has some suggestions to further improve the latency that would be very much appreciated?!
I was also wondering if the below latency numbers are good enough to use the MESA 7i76E board?

In retrospect (considering the results I have seen in this thread), I should have gone for a Dell Optiplex 980 (i5) which would have been a 'hassle-free' to setup with superb latency performance. However, I really like the form factor of the NUC.

Thank you!
LinuxCNC pc tests, version 20200930, started 02.02.2022 13:32:31
********************************************************************************
General info:
Intel Corporation,  NUC7i5BNH
Bios version BNKBL357.86A.0087.2021.1210.1903, dated 12/10/2021
Chipset: Harddisk is non-rotational, ie. SSD
The amount of swap currently used is 0
================================================================================
CPU related data:
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7260U CPU @ 2.20GHz
cpu cores    : 1
stepping    : 9
cache size    : 4096 KB
================================================================================
RAM related data:
Maximum Capacity: 32 GB
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Size: 8192 MB
Size: 8192 MB
================================================================================
GPU related data:
product: Intel Corporation
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
================================================================================
Parallel port related data:
number of parallel ports is 0
================================================================================
Os and desktop related data:
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"

Should the info below not match with your machine,
kindly post the output of pstree here, including a brief
desciption of your desktop environment, window manager and
display manager. Tia
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/39370-script-for-automated-testing-of-computer-latency

Desktop environment : xfce4
Windowmanager       : Xfwm4
Displaymanager      : lightdm
================================================================================
Kernel related data:
Kernel 4.19.0-18-rt-amd64
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet transparent_hugepage=never splash mitigations=off isolcpus=1 acpi_irq_nobalance noirqbalance lapic nohlt idle=poll radeon.modeset=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 ipv6.disable=1 pci=routeirq"
Cpu idle driver: none
================================================================================
Kernel modules data:
Check if pcspkr is loaded: No, which is good!
Check if snd modules are loaded: No, which is good!
================================================================================
Keyboard & Mouse related data:
Number of mice: 1
Mouse 0 : HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse
Mice  attached to USB:
HP, Inc HID-compliant mouse
Keyboards attached to USB:
================================================================================
LinuxCNC related data:
LinuxCNC version is: 2.8.2.11.g6a3d0a434
================================================================================
Preparing for latency test:
Started glxgears No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
..........
Started firefox with 'https://vimeo.com/150574260', WID 50331651
================================================================================
Command for latency test is:
su cnc -c  "latency-histogram --nobase  --sbinsize 1000 --nox 2>&1 | tee -a 1643779951.lat &"

Latency testing loop started Wed  2 Feb 13:32:44 AWST 2022, 
should end after Wed  2 Feb 15:32:44 AWST 2022

================================================================================
Swap useage: prerun: 0, running: 0

================================================================================
CPU core temperatures:
Core 0: Tmin: 49.0°C, Tmax: 55.0°C, (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
================================================================================
last latency data is as follows:.
 7204 secs  servo min: -83.700 uS max:  86.400 uS sdev:   4.800 uS
 7205 secs  servo min: -83.700 uS max:  86.400 uS sdev:   4.800 uS
Last edit: 02 Feb 2022 14:36 by deus.
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02 Feb 2022 15:56 #233811 by seuchato
Hi deus

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet transparent_hugepage=never splash mitigations=off isolcpus=1 acpi_irq_nobalance noirqbalance lapic nohlt idle=poll radeon.modeset=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 ipv6.disable=1 pci=routeirq"

I  added 'vm.swappiness=0' to /etc/sysctl.conf

I added 'hardware−irq−coalesce−rx−usecs 0' to /etc/network/interfaces

I used the following command to avoid any sleep modes:
'sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target'

I think these are a LOT of options. I am not sure if one might bite the other. In order to rule out any bad influence by changing/adding just on option at a time, run the test and record the numbers along with a protocol of what you have changed. Guess that will keep you busy for quite a while :-)

But, honestly, I think the latency figures you get should be OK with ethernet based cards. I guess tommylight can give you a much more quilified answer, as I have not received my mesa cards to date.
Greez
chris

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02 Feb 2022 16:51 #233813 by arvidb

I added 'vm.swappiness=0' to /etc/sysctl.conf


This is probably a bad idea. The swappiness parameter sets the ratio between file page and anonymous page reclamation. Probably not what you wanted.

Read more here if you want: www.howtogeek.com/449691/what-is-swapine...nd-how-to-change-it/
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02 Feb 2022 20:01 #233829 by seuchato
arvidb
Thx for the link. Read it once, will have to read it again, probably various times.
Greez
chris
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02 Feb 2022 20:18 - 02 Feb 2022 20:23 #233833 by seuchato

Hi, my ITX-ASRock880GXH with one onboard Parport and one PCIe Parport:
...
================================================================================
CPU related data:
model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4005 CPU @ 2.00GHz
cpu cores    : 2
stepping    : 1
cache size    : 4096 KB
...
 
 


I have question regarding the MoBo:
  • 880GXH suggests, the MoBo is for an AMD based one, see hereffff
  • But that cannot be, as far as I know, an Intel CPU would probably ieek itself out of an AMD socket ("Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4005 CPU @ 2.00GHz")
So: what is the exact MoBO?
remark to myself: have to add code in the script to depict as closely as possible the MoBo manufacturer and model
Greez
chris

PS: could it be this Mobo ?
Last edit: 02 Feb 2022 20:23 by seuchato. Reason: typos and link to intel MoBo

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