Nice setup! You'll most certainly want to benchmark it using FileBench. Similar to IOmeter, it can do both micro and macro benchmarking, as opposed to tools like Bonnie++ or IOzone which are simply micro-benchmarks.
FileBench is all CLI and provides a variety of pre-defined workloads which you can run. FileBench will actually pre-create files (hundreds/thousands, depending on your preference) and run the workloads with elements of randomness to provide you with the closest "real" numbers of any available tool. Here are some helpful links: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench/quick_start/ http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=949 http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench benr. [email protected] wrote: > So I've setup my test system. It's a dual quad core system with 2.33 > ghz procs and 8GB of RAM. I have 12 2.5" 146 SAS drives connected via > a LSI SAS expander and 1068 hba. For the boot drive, I'm using a 2.5" > sata and I also have a Intel SSD (32GB SLC) which I'm using for ZIL. > Oh - i'm running Express Community Edition snv_113. > > Can anyone share some insight on how best to benchmark fs performance? > I usually use iometer, but I can't get dynamo to compile on this > platform. > > I see alot of people use iozone, but I don't really understand why > some of the performance numbers exceed the maximum throughput in > theory for 12 SAS disks. > > I've configured a single mirrored pool with no hot spares across all > 12 disks > > # zpool status > pool: datapool1 > state: ONLINE > scrub: none requested > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > datapool1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t8d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t9d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t10d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t11d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t12d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t13d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t14d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t15d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t16d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t17d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t18d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0t19d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > logs ONLINE 0 0 0 > c2t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > Thanks in advance! > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. This communication may contain material protected by > the attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, > be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or > copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in > error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. > > > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
