From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 19 11:01:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21506 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA21430 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id LAA18823; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11272; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609191752.KAA11272@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Greco cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News server... In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 19 Sep 96 10:38:43 -0500. <199609191538.KAA10990@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:52:19 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [...] >I also do not have a GOOD set of tools with which to measure concurrency >within a news filesystem. I have some basic programs that I run several >of simultaneously, but how fair they are? Dunno. It is certainly a >problem that could use a researcher. All I am interested in is convincing >people that a stripe size of 8K is _foolish_. :-) I am about half way though writing a little benchmarking tool that works a lot more like news (lots of files in lots of directories, being read and written simultaneously). I would be "done" by now if I had more time... Is there anything specific you would like to see in something like this? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------