Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput

[Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>]

"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdlab.org> writes:

> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:41:50AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be very useful to have a standardised and very carefully
> > > chosen set of tests which we could use for evaluating fs and kernel
> > > performance.  I'm not aware of anything suitable, really.  It would
> > > have to be a whole bunch of datapoints sprinkled throughout a
> > > multidimesional space.  That's what we do at present, but it's ad-hoc.
> > 
> > All the gripes about dbench/netbench aside, one good thing about them
> > is that they hit the filesystem with a large number of operations in
> > parallel, which is what a fileserver under heavy load will see.
> > Benchmarks like Andrew and Bonnie tend to have a much more serialized
> > pattern of filesystem access.
> 
> Is iozone (using threads) any better at this?
> We are currently using iozone.
> 
> And where can I find Zlatko's xmm program that Mike mentioned?
> 

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