From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 12 20:46:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C80467E for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA97433; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:16:50 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:16:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bonnie still trustable? Message-ID: <20000213151650.A97412@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200002110949.KAA14176@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002110949.KAA14176@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 11 February 2000 at 10:49:24 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > PIII/500, 128 MB > > I'm wondering if this is trustable: > >> bonnie -s 400 > File './Bonnie.14321', size: 419430400 > Writing with putc()...done > Rewriting...done > Writing intelligently...done > Reading with getc()...done > Reading intelligently...done > Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... > -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU > 400 20015 73.7 18369 22.9 6750 12.6 22308 81.5 22467 26.0 93.8 1.0 > ^^^^ > ? > > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ff on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 > wd0: 19574MB (40088160 sectors), 39770 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I'm sure that the results mean something; the real question is, what do you want them to mean? If you're trying to measure the storage device, rawio (Ports Collection) is a much better choice. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message