Here are some benchmarks I ran last week: I think it's important
to balance the -s with the -n numbers so that you are
dealing with the same amount of data, otherwise caching can bite you
and you can have misleading results. Therefore, I used 10k file-size,
and adjusted the number of files to
Following the extended discussion of system benchmarks here are some
actual numbers from a FreeBSD box - if anybody has the time to run
similar numbers on linux boxes I will happily collate the data.
John
2.93 GHz Celeron D, 768 MB ram FreeBSD 6.2
bonnie++ -f 0 -d . -s 3072 -n 10:10:10:1