On Jan 31, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Landman <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Actually, I don't know what kind of conclusions it is possible to make > > from disktest's results (maybe only how throughput gets bigger or slower > > with increasing number of threads?), it's a good stress test tool, but > > not more. > > Unfortunately, I agree. Bonnie++, dd tests, and a few others seem to > bear far closer to "real world" tests than disktest and iozone, the > latter of which does more to test the speed of RAM cache and system call > performance than actual IO. I have ran some tests with Bonnie++, but found out that on a fast network like IB the filesystem used for the test has a really big impact on the test results. If anyone has a suggestion for a better test than dd to compare the performance of SCSI storage protocols, please let it know. Bart Van Assche. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
