FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 and dragonfly

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Tue Feb 1 19:50:23 PST 2005


OK, I updated the xls file to include tests on
DragonFly  1.1-Stable DragonFly 1.1-Stable #0: Wed Jan 26 13:15:16 GMT 2005

File is at http://www.tancsa.com/iozone-tests-2.xls.bz2


It seems to do quite well.  Unfortunately without ACL support I cant use it 
for this app.

                -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential 
Input--  --Random--*
                -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- 
--Block---  --Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU   /sec 
%CPU
F        2000 33789 25.8 34065  8.3 14038  3.8 47484 
44.6  67316  9.5  2873.7  5.7
L        2000 28073 62.0 22391  4.3 12189  2.0 17577 35.5 
102132  5.5  1853.7  2.5
H        2000 33301 27.9 34832  8.3 12872  3.4 49762 
46.8  67274  9.2  8078.1 15.1
D        2000 38532 26.2 38204  6.4 19689  4.6 82366 90.5  92569 
10.0  5071.9  8.9

* I would throw this value out as the box has 2G of RAM...

...via nfs mount - client is RELENG_5, server Dragonfly (default options on 
both sides)

[ns4-new]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile2 bs=16k count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes transferred in 45.605148 secs (5886078 bytes/sec)
0.008u 0.492s 0:45.62 1.0%      23+200k 0+32768io 0pf+0w
[ns4-new]#


postmark is pretty well the same as linux.


# gcc postmark-1_5.c
# ./a.out
PostMark v1.5 : 3/27/01
pm>set location /mnt
pm>set size 300 100000
pm>set transactions 400000
pm>run
Creating files...Done
Performing transactions..........Done
Deleting files...Done
Time:
         1794 seconds total
         1794 seconds of transactions (222 per second)

Files:
         200107 created (111 per second)
                 Creation alone: 500 files (500 per second)
                 Mixed with transactions: 199607 files (111 per second)
         199905 read (111 per second)
         199384 appended (111 per second)
         200107 deleted (111 per second)
                 Deletion alone: 889 files (889 per second)
                 Mixed with transactions: 199218 files (111 per second)

Data:
         12715.55 megabytes read (7.09 megabytes per second)
         12728.92 megabytes written (7.10 megabytes per second)
pm>


At 11:42 AM 01/02/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:

>I posted up an excel workbook at
>http://www.tancsa.com/iozone-tests.xls.bz2
>
>
>This has the results of iozone on RELENG_5, HEAD, HEAD with 
>debug.mpsafevfs=1 and LINUX 2.6.10 on ext3 as well as some quick NFS tests 
>against RELENG_5 and LINUX as servers with FreeBSD RELENG-5 clients.
>
>Once again, the hardware is the same. The boot OS drives have changed, but 
>the tests were all done against one large RAID5 partition.
>
>HTT disabled in the BIOS, using SCHED_4BSD on a 3ware 8xxx controller in 
>RAID5 with 4 drives. dmesg attached.
>
>         ---Mike
>
>
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