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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:00:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI
Message-ID:  <20081204135941.C53671@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <gh8ic3$mb3$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <20081204113806.GA4578@aurora.oekb.co.at> <gh8ic3$mb3$1@ger.gmane.org>

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>> My first thought was about "iozone"...
>
> iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok
> - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different
> aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case.
can bonnie++ operate on raw device not filesystem?

he asked about disk benchmarked not disk+filesystem

>
> Make sure you know what you're benchmarking - for example if the iSCSI
> drive (target) is hosted as a file in a regular file system, it will be
> overly (and dangerously) cached on the server.
>
>



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