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- From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
- Subject: Re: iozone bogusness
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:59:29 GMT
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- In article <BxE8q0.Czn@agora.rain.com> davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman) writes:
- >Sorry for the "late" response here, but the first attempt at posting this
- >never made it through the net. Anyway...
- >
- >>I only use iozone 1, just to be consistent and make the test more realistic.
- >>Most applications do not need more than 1 Megabyte of sequential access..
- >
- > I don't know what you mean by 'realistic'; your results certainly aren't.
- >Using iozone with a larger value is necessary because, on most machines, the
- >filesystem cache is at least 1MB and using a test size of less than the cache
- >size will generate useless results.
-
- I have not seen the source codes of io-zone (could anyone point it for me?),
- but if it writes with O_SYNC mode, and if it reads new files whenever it
- reads, it certainly does not use any advantage of buffer cache.
- Otherwise, iozone can give bogus benchmarks.
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