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From: James A. Robinson Jim.Robinson@Sta...
Subject: [9fans] Bonnie Benchmark
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:15:00 -0800

On Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:03:33 -0800 I wrote:
< Interesting! I ran it on my cpu server, and got some different numbers.
< I imagine much of the difference is due to the wide-scsi (an NCR 53c875,
< using Nigel's driver). Also, I did not set any specific block size when
< I was creating the file system.

And as a side note... Here are the results from a P2/400 Linux box
with 128MB ram and an IDE drive...

bonnie -s 1
              -------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
            1  6321 98.8 75577 147.6 37539 110.0  5886 97.7 124422 121.5 15501.6 96.9
bonnie -s 2
              -------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
            2  6336 102.1 69745 68.1 31725 92.9  5729 97.9 125336 61.2 13833.9 96.8
bonnie -s 4
              -------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
            4  6319 100.3 68308 100.1 31169 106.5  5783 100.2 133433 130.3 13089.2 98.2
bonnie -s 8
              -------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
            8  6213 98.6 67784 99.3 33832 103.2  5747 100.3 132900 97.3 12539.6 97.2
bonnie -s 16
              -------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
           16  6244 99.9 66131 100.9 34100 99.9  5717 100.2 128472 94.1 1476.8 11.1
bonnie -s 32
              -------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
           32  5868 93.7 45987 66.0  2809 10.3  5283 93.5 126288 100.2 11155.8 83.7
bonnie -s 64
              -------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
           64  5637 90.8 29349 43.4  1918  6.0  2807 49.4 123903 96.4 10850.2 86.8