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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:29:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      fbsd-dave <fbsddave@mrcaffeine.com>
To:        Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum stats and question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151426150.5782-100000@boris.netgate.net>
In-Reply-To: <200003151658.IAA31925@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>

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Use rawio to test, at least for vinum storage. Bonnie tests through system
buffers and fibs. (though usually it's optimistic)

-- from rawio(1)'s manpage --
rawio resembles bonnie in some of the things it does.  It differs strong-
ly from bonnie by using a raw disk device, which bypasses buffer cache. As
a result, some of the tests that bonnie performs are meaningless, for
example character I/O.
---

Build it here:
/usr/ports/benchmarks/rawio

Still, those numbers do look strange. Can we see the output from "vinum
printconfig"?

Dave

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Mark Smith wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Here's some Bonnie stats from my 3.4R machine.  Plase read da1 and da2 
> instead of sd1 and sd2.  I benched the individual drives right after
> installing 3.4 and was still thinking older device names. <G> Anway,
> sd1 and sd2 are the drives striped together to get testc.  
> 
> Could somebody please explain why the sequentional block output is sooo
> much slower on the striped partion than the individual sd1 and sd2 
> drives?
> 
> #Bonnie -s 200
> 
> /disk1 /dev/sd1
>     -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>     -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>  MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> 200  7510 93.4  8428 21.5  2856 15.8  7485 93.2 11164 27.4 227.0  6.3
> 
> /disk2 /dev/sd2
>     -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>     -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>  MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> 200  7546 92.4  8403 21.6  2871 15.9  7512 93.0 11375 29.6 199.9  5.9
> 
> /testc /dev/vinum/testc
>     -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>     -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>  MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> 200  7881 96.3  2886 25.9  5765 31.7  6297 77.0 16289 46.5 315.8  9.6
> -- 
> Thanks!
> Mark




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