On Friday 10 November 2006 09:09, Joe Landman wrote: > My question is this: apart from using huge file sizes to see raw > disk performance, what do you considered good performance on the various > tests, either in the huge file size regime, or in the cache interaction > regime? Basically which tests are most meaningful to your workloads? > Are the raw disk data really the most useful datum?
Because of our diversity of users (500+ from 8 separate universities covering a myriad of fields) we can't really been able to pick anything better than Bonnie++ so far. The raw data does seem to give a generally reasonable indication of how well a system can do I/O, for us at least. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
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