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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] Bonnie Benchmark
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:07:17 -0600

>From: "James A. Robinson" <Jim.Robinson@Sta...>
>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.

The main difference is that you are only writing to one hard drive,
your write numbers are about twice mine.

Also your 4k block size helps alot.

The other difference is:

>	File server
>		128 Mb RAM

You need to test up to -s 256 to blow the cache.