Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:23:30 -0400 From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, ccf@master.ndi.net, gordont@bluemtn.net, jkh@osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010522222328.A5012@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <3B0A8DD5.9A38449B@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:33PM -0400 References: <200105220411.f4M4BDX101825@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0A8DD5.9A38449B@mitre.org>
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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Here's the results I got from postmark, which seems to be the closest > match to the original problem in the entire ports tree. > > Test setup: > Two machines with the same make and model hardware, one running > FreeBSD 4.0, the other running RedHat Linux 7.0. > > The data: > > Hardware: > Both machines have the same hardware on paper (although it is TWO > machines, > YMMV). > PII-300 > Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller > IBM-DHEA-38451 8063MB ata0-master using UDMA33 HD > > Note: all variables are left at default unless mentioned. > > 10000 transactions, 500 files. What did you set size to? How much memory on the machine? I tested on a 700MHz Athlon system with 256MB RAM, Adaptec 2940UW controller, 18GB IBM Ultrastar SCSI drive. You must have really low memory or something because I know that 10000 transactions and 500 files can't be enough for anything faster than my old Sun SS5. I hit over 16MB/sec and 5000 transactions per second on my Linux machine. On the larger tests, it was disappointing. I can't test FreeBSD on SCSI right now, but my NetBSD machine (the old Sun SS5 wasn't terrible at least: Time: 220 seconds total 204 seconds of transactions (49 per second) Files: 5564 created (25 per second) Creation alone: 500 files (62 per second) Mixed with transactions: 5064 files (24 per second) 4999 read (24 per second) 4967 appended (24 per second) 5564 deleted (25 per second) Deletion alone: 628 files (78 per second) Mixed with transactions: 4936 files (24 per second) Data: 32.12 megabytes read (149.52 kilobytes per second) 35.61 megabytes written (165.73 kilobytes per second) > 10000 transactions, 60000 files > FreeBSD 4.0 with Softupdates, write cache disabled > Time: > 1259 seconds total > 495 seconds of transactions (20 per second) I got about 60 per second right here. I was actually expecting better results from Linux and NetBSD than I got, and would expect more from FreeBSD than you got. I'm going to test FreeBSD tomorrow and Linux again with much larger numbers of files and transactions. -- "Star Wars Moral Number 17: Teddy bears are dangerous in | | | herds." | | | ________________________________________________________________ / | \ s h a n n o n @ w i d o m a k e r . c o m _/ | \_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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