From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 2:25: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out1.mx.skynet.be (out1.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51267153E9 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out1.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id LAA09843 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:25:02 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:24:41 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Brad Knowles Subject: More benchmarking stuff... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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, 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