From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 11 08:50:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14892 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14866 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA15986; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:50:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35814EA0.7847B26E@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:52:00 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Viren R. Shah" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS performance benchmarks? References: <199806111217.IAA07801@fault.rstcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Viren R. Shah wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are NFS performance benchmarks available? > If not, what would be a good series of tests to run to compare > relative NFS performance (FreeBSD NFS server vs. Solaris NFS server)? > [I looked in /usr/ports/benchmarks, but there isn't anything NFS > specific -- it all seems to be either network or CPU benchmarking] Are you the Viren Shah of NCWorld Magazine? I don't find any explicit NFS performance benchmarks, but have you tried running iozone or bonnie on an NFS mount? My standard test has always been to 'make world' on something relatively large and compare the times to local disk I/O. The FreeBSD kernel used to be suitable for this, but on this system it takes about 3 minutes to build. I generally recommend something with 10-minute or greater build times, so differences will be large enough to really notice. At one previous employer, where we used HP workstations to develop embedded code, we added a couple of Pentium laptops running FreeBSD to make a portable work environment for engineers going to customer sites. My partner Phil and I were highly amused, and the rest of the engineers quite astonished, to learn the laptops compiled our 600,000 lines of C/C++ code faster than our $18,000 HP workstations. These were Gateway Solo 5s with Pentium 133s, versus HP 9000/712 model 100s, both using local disk to compile and link. FreeBSD: the power to COMPILE! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message