Bonnie really isn't that useful. I always create a simple tool to run io loads I expect and then measure that. I once wrote a directory generator and I can confirm that with 650K dirs things start to slow down pretty badly :-) I ran that on several T softraid raid 0.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:23:27PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: > I'm looking to try running some tests with bonnie++ on several softraid > configurations for RAID 0. > > http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/amd64/bonnie++-1.03a.tgz-long.html > > The following parameters can be set. > > -s the size of the file(s) for IO performance > -n the number of files for the file creation test, > in multiples of 1024 > > Aside from the defaults, which values for size and number of files are > useful to investigate, if any? > > Regards > -Lars
