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- From: peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele)
- Subject: Re: File System Benchmarks - Bonnie
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- Organization: Acadia University
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:09:21 GMT
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- >Another flurry of articles about benchmarking I/O (or rather filesystems,
- >which is different but is what people almost always really want to do).
- >Here is another benchmark which, in my totally biased opinion as its author,
- >stresses the outer limit of Unix filesystem performance for large files
- >and makes a serious attempt to find out the truth about random access
- >performance (you thought the unix filesystem could come close to the
- >seek performance of the underlying filesystem? hah hah).
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- I use Bonnie in favour of IOtest. It returns a nice table of results
- for sequential I/O and well as random I/O. Highly recommended...
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- Peter Steele Unix Services Manager peter.steele@acadiau.ca
- Acadia Univ., Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P 1X0 902-542-2201 Fax: 902-542-4364
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