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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:39:10 -0700
From: Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com>
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Subject: Joining The Performance List - I/O Testing
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All,
  I decided to join this list so that I could do a better job of
staying on top of the  I/O performance testing.  I have moved my 5.3
test server from RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 (2/2/05) and did some testing.
 I had almost identical results to my previous testing.  Iostat
indicates that I'm getting approximately 15Mb/sec on 5.x, and 58Mb/sec
when I use 4.11.  These figure are consistent on my current test
boxes.
  1) Dell SC400, 256Mb Ram, 40Gb EIDE.
  2) Dell 4600, 512Mb Ram, 80GB EIDE.
I also tested with NetBSD 2.0 and OpenBSD 3.6 and had similar
performance to FreeBSD 4.11 (approx. 58Mb/Sec.)

--Nick Pavlica  


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