From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 8: 0:37 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 7E3ED1582E for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:00:32 -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 RAA13308 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:00:25 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:59:13 +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 4:35 PM +0200 1999/9/17, Brad Knowles wrote: > I'm running the second tests now. The second series of tests was *highly* educational. For the first time ever with postmark, I saw errors like this: Error: cannot open '34878' for writing Error: cannot open '34879' for writing .Error: Cannot delete '31484' .Error: cannot open '31483' for reading Error: Cannot delete '30648' .Error: cannot open '31483' for reading .Error: Cannot delete '30352' Done Deleting files...Error: Cannot delete '30352' Error: Cannot delete '30353' Error: Cannot delete '30648' Error: Cannot delete '31486' Error: Cannot delete '32103' I'm guessing that the async filesystem under Linux just couldn't keep up. I'm hoping that this hasn't permanently trashed that filesystem. ;-) I also noticed that system CPU usage was *much* higher under Linux than it was under FreeBSD. I saw peaks of 97% utilization in system time, and I'm going to re-run these tests under the bash "time" command to see if I can get some averages of system versus user mode usage, etc.... Anyway, the results I got were: Transactions per second: 97 KBytes Read per second: 230.58 KBytes Written per second: 418.22 The re-run of the second sequence with "time" is now underway. I've also got back initial results of running postmark on a similar Dell PowerEdge 1300, but this time one with two 450Mhz processors. Otherwise, it is configured pretty much identically, at least for the subsystems I'm testing so far. The filesystem is *not* mounted with softupdates. The results I got were: Transactions per second: 35 KBytes Read per second: 110.58 KBytes Written per second: 113.06 I'm re-running this command under bash "time" as well, and all future results to be reported will be likewise. I'm also going to go back and do the same for the tests I ran on the older PPro 200 machine with 128MB RAM. -- 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