> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > I am concerned that these stats for bonnie are in fact pretty poor for the
> > > hardware involved. Could someone running SW RAID5 on similar hardware
> > > comment on your bonnie findings?
>
> Er, I have a hardware RAID5 array driven by a DAC960. I had asked this
> question before but didn't get a response -- *is* there stats software
> available? Will bonnie tell me what kind of throughput/usage/etc. I'm
> getting from the array?
>
> Thanks...
>
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> Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3srf
>
Yes. Bonnie is a fairly well accepted benchmark for hard disks/io
subsystems. It measurs char and block input and output timings, as well
as recording %cpu used in each case.
Bonnie is not 'monitoring' software per se. It won't give you usage stats
or anything like that. It basically wants to be run single-user so it can
thrash your disk (which it will regardless). Of course, it is
non-destructive to the disks...
I posted my results to the list a while back (that is my quote up top :-)
The stats are actually not that great, unfortunately.
David
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