On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote:
> > -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
> > md0 192 5933 86.4 15222 21.8 4172 11.8 5672 81.3 9014 11.2 218.4 4.6
> > sd0 192 6411 92.0 15072 18.5 4265 11.7 5760 80.6 12069 13.1 201.8 4.5
>
> More cases with faster write access (significantly) than read... am I
> wrong in thinking this is strange? Is bonnie really worth trusting?
> Is there a better tool currently available?
bonnie is the main benchmark i'm optimizing for. hdparm -tT is rather
useless in this regard, it has only a relevance on maybe e2fsck times.
i'll have a look at RAID1 read balancing. I once ensured we read better
than single-disk, but we might have lost this property meanwhile ...
-- mingo
