Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:24:41 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: More benchmarking stuff... Message-ID: <v0420550bb407b94a880d@[195.238.1.121]>
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Folks, In addition to the vinum vs. DPT SmartRAID IV benchmarking that I had done, I've also started doing filesystem/OS-level benchmarking with a program called "postmark" that Network Appliance wrote to show off the performance of their NetApp Filers. See <http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3022.html>; for the paper from NetApp that shows the performance of their filers against various other systems, and it also includes a link to the page where you can get the source code. The source code compiled and is running just fine for me under FreeBSD 3.3-RC. Not a single hitch. Their best results on an F630 with 1000 files and 50,000 transactions were 253 transactions per second, 799.91 KBytes/sec read, and 817.89 KBytes/sec written. I just ran this same test on an old PPro 200Mhz system with 128MB of RAM and softupdates on a Western Digital Enterprise 4.5GB hard drive. I got 282 transactions per second, 869.09 KBytes read per second, and 888.63 KBytes written per second! This ancient machine with a single slow hard drive, but running FreeBSD 3.3-RC with softupdates beats their *expensive* NFS file server!!! I'm going to run this on some other machines, including the same machine and disk without softupdates, FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE on a dual-processor PIII @ 450Mhz without softupdates on both the single Western Digital boot disk and on the external DPT SmartRAID IV striped array of four IBM 10kRPM UltraStar 9LZX drives, a single processor Pentium III @ 450Mhz running Linux 2.9 on the internal hard drive and on the external DPT SmartRAID V controlled striped array of five Quantum Fireball 7200RPM 9GB drives (both mounted async and sync), and any other machines I can get my hands on. I think this is going to be fun! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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