From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 14 17:37:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C38D3E12 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99606 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Feb 2000 01:37:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:37:58 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Christoph Kukulies , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bonnie still trustable? Message-ID: <20000215023758.A99113@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: <200002110949.KAA14176@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000213151650.A97412@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000213151650.A97412@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 03:16:50PM +1030 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i personally like shimon's st.d... it exercises a disk very thoroughly, so if you want to benchmark - and, of course, have plenty of time for the box to run the benchmark - st.d is the choice since you got your free-of-charge(tm) burn in of the disk subsystem with it. what it basically does is simulating a nonlinear load behaviour like you got in a multi-client or large amount of concurrent i/o processes environment and i like it a lot. welps, i won't argue about the command line parameters - just see for yourself ;-) http://www.simon-shapiro.org/st_d/index.html /k Greg Lehey(grog@lemis.com)@Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 03:16:50PM +1030: > 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 -- > "Dort wo andere Moral besitzen hat sie ein Loch." -- Erich Kaestner http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message