And lo, Mark Lord saith unto me:
>
> Michael Shields wrote:
> >
> > Here is a bonnie (tested with -s of 3x physical RAM) on my new home
> > system:
> >
> > -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> > -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
> > 384 5381 83.6 8894 15.6 3603 12.1 5749 76.4 12043 15.6 127.9 1.5
> >
> > This is an ext2 filesystem on twin IBM Deskstar 10 GXP drives. These
> > are *IDE* drives, 9.5 ms 7200 rpm. Each one has a dedicated UDMA bus.
>
> Here are a pair of 7200rpm Seagate IDE drives as RAID0, using UDMA0:
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> -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
> 100 16017 89.3 85390 82.6 10960 29.0 14436 66.5 18679 19.3 760.1 4.2
>
> Most of the speed difference is probably due to a faster CPU (P2-400).
And the smaller bonnie size...unless your P2-400 has only 33 megs of RAM.
100 megs is no longer a good default size; try again with a bigger one if
you can.
Keith
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