February 10, 2013

Testing the benchmark scripts – 1

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I’m getting very slow throughput on these drives during my first set of tests. I have no idea why… The drive in question is: $ grep ada2 /var/run/dmesg.boot ada2 at ahcich4 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0 ada2: <ST2000DM001-1CH164 CC24> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada2: Command Queueing enabled ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada2: Previously was known as ad12 Here […]

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New benchmarks coming

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I think y’all should consider the benchmarks to date as prototypes. Tonight I wrote some scripts which will make my tasks easier and faster. It’s great not to have to manually enter all the commands. It also makes for consistencies between each run. We’ll concentrate on just two tests: bonnie++ and fio. These tests will be performed on both ufs and zfs. I’ll also run the tests on the drive when attached to

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