On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:18:18AM -0700, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a > > feel for baseline performance. > > Unfortunately, benchmarking with IOzone is a very poor indicator of > what performance will be like during normal use. Forcing the system > to behave like it is short on memory only tests how the system will > behave when it is short on memory. > > Testing multi-threaded synchronous writes with IOzone might actually > mean something if it is representative of your work-load. > > Bob
Sounds like IOzone may not be my best option here (though it does produce pretty graphs). bonnie++ actually gave me more realistic sounding numbers, and I've been reading good thigns about fio. Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
