FYI, I've found 'iostat' to be quite useful in monitoring the drive transfer rates while benchmarking in OSX. Then again, in Panther all you really need to do is pop open Activity Monitor (formerly Process Viewer) which now has some nifty graphing for system status: cpu, disk, ram activity and usage, etc.

- Gabriel

On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 03:21 PM, Brent Baisley wrote:

I'd be curious what the specs of the hard drives are. Using the stock drives in the Mac means you are using a drive that's about average (2MB cache, 7200RPM). I would assume they are both ATA/IDE drives. But I would guess the bottleneck is the drive. Try running top when you are running your tests to see where the bottleneck is.

OSX is also a work in progress, I/O is a big area that Apple is improving on. I thought I remember reading that 10.2 was just reaching the throughput you would get in OS9.
I'd be curious what kind of numbers Panther shows. Once I get my xServe setup, just arrived, I'll try running some tests myself.



On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Jan Pieter Kunst wrote:


Hi everyone,

I recently ran the MySQL benchmark suite on a Dual 1 GHz G4 running Mac
OS X Server 10.2.8, and an 800 MHz Intel machine running SuSE Linux 8.0.
Both installations used the same my.cnf file.


The results are comparable in all benchmarks except one: the 'insert'.
In that one, the Mac is more than twice as slow. Below are the benchmark
results for both machines, and the my.cnf I used.


I was wondering if there is something I can do, configuration-wise, to
do something about those very slow 'inserts' (and 'updates') on the Mac?


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