Since you're into comapring benchmarks, let me contribute something from an
IBM Netfinity server with IBM ServeRaid 3L Controller, Firmware + Kernel
driver 3.60. Server is running with 1 Coppermine 650 Cpu, Kernel is 2.2.15
Test run using tiotest 0.24
Disks: 3x IBM IBM-PSG DNES-309SAHRAJ2A0800 (LVD, 8GB)
Controller set to write-through:
Dir Size BlkSz Thr# Read (CPU%) Write (CPU%) Seeks (CPU%)
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/home 200 4096 1 11.5838 8.91% 2.25682 1.45% 158.003 0.90%
/home 200 4096 2 9.28095 5.59% 2.44794 1.48% 185.952 0.79%
/home 200 4096 4 4.18129 2.45% 2.61105 1.57% 210.765 0.94%
/home 200 4096 8 3.74263 2.39% 2.70908 1.68% 234.533 0.90%
Bye, Martin
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