From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 5: 3:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED5A153FF for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id OAA28639 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:03:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:03:08 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: More benchmarking stuff... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:24 AM +0200 1999/9/17, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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!!! Sadly, when I go to the second set of tests (20,000 files and 50,000 transactions), my performance goes into the crapper. I know that softupdates trades memory for speed, and I guess this PPro 200 w/ 128MB RAM just doesn't have enough memory to keep up. For this stage, I now get: Transactions per second: 33 KBytes Read per second: 79.66 KBytes Written per second: 144.31 The third stage of testing (20,000 files and 100,000 transactions is now underway. -- 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