Magento

Performance

Toolkit

William Harvey

Principal Product Manager

Magento

Performance Toolkit

Magento Performance Testing – Control Variables

Test Protocol

Load Generator

Merchant Traffic Profile

Reference Store

Magento Platform

Environment

Reference System Architecture

Load Generator

• Hardware

• Developer’s Performance System

• Software

• Apache jMeter 2.11 r1554548

• JMeterPlugins-Standard, JMeterPlugins-Extra

Merchant Traffic Profile / Reference Store

Profile Websites Categories Simple Products Configurable Products

Small 1 30 800 50

Medium 1 300 16,000 1,000

Large 3 1,000 40,000 25,000

XL 5 3,000 800,000 50,000

Magento Platform

• Magento Version

• EE 1.13.1.0

• Patches Applied

• PHP 5.4 Compatibility Patch

• Scalability Patch (SUPEE-3818)

Environment (Hardware) – Desktop Example

• Developer’s Performance System

• CPU = 3.5 GHz, Quad-Core i7 (i4770k)

• RAM = 32 GB

• HDD = Sata III, Intel 530 Series 180GB SSD

Environment (Hardware) – Virtual Server Example

• Cloud Application Server

• CPU = 2x vCPU, 2.3 GHz (Xeon E5-2530)

• RAM = 7 GB

• Cloud Database Server

• CPU = 4x vCPU, 2.3GHz (Xeon E5-2530)

• RAM = 7 GB

Reference System Architecture – Examples

Environment (Software)

• MySQL 5.4.38

• PHP 5.4.30

• Redis 2.6.17

Environment (Software) – Example variables

• noatime, nodiratime

• no write barriers (barriers=0)

• swappiness = 10

• max file descriptors = 65535

Test Protocol – Example

1. Prepare environment

a. Provision servers and load system software

b. Install Magento and apply patches

2. Execute generate.php to populate the store

3. Run performance.jmx once to prime the cache

4. Run performance.jmx again and report results

Lessons Learned

What have we learned?

• Magento runs better on PHP 5.4 http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/php54-patch

What have we learned?

• Magento + PHP 5.3

Can see a major performance improvement with…

• Magento + Nginx + PHP-FPM

Is comparable to…

• Magento + PHP 5.4 + Opcache

What have we learned?

• Use redis as a cache backend for Magento

• Native support in CE 1.8, EE 1.12 & later

http://info.magento.com/rs/magentocommerce/images/MagentoECG-

UsingRedisasaCacheBackendinMagento.pdf

What have we learned?

• Importing is getting slower…

• Shopper experience is getting faster…

What have we learned?

• Magento 1.14 is faster than 1.13...

• Magento 1.14 is slower than 1.13…

What have we learned?

• Some extensions break caching…

• Magento EE FPC

• Nginx

• Varnish

What is coming?

What is coming?

• Performance Test Toolkit (1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 2.x)

• PHP Scripts (generate.php, indexer.php)

• jMeter Test Scripts (performance.jmx)

• Whitepaper: Magento Performance Test Guidelines

Q&A

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