I've been using dbench a lot lately for reality checks on various kernel
mods, and out of interest I decided to run benchmarks with it on a few
different kernel versions. I noticed a major difference between 2.2 and
2.4 kernels - 2.4 is running the benchmarks about 3 times faster than
2.2, and it seems to be getting faster with each step towards 2.4.0. On
the other hand, 2.2 seems to be getting slower. Here are a few points
on the curve.
Test machine: 64 meg, 500 Mhz K6, IDE, Ext2, Blocksize=4K
Test: dbench 48
Kernel Throughput Elapsed Time
------ ---------- ------------
2.2.16 3.1 MB/sec 33 min 53 secs
2.2.18 2.8 MB/sec 38 min 10 secs
2.2.19-pre3 2.7 MB/sec 39 min 44 secs
2.4.0-test12 7.3 MB/sec 14 min 32 secs
2.4.0-test13-pre4 9.5 MB/sec 11 min 06 secs
2.4.0-test13-pre5 10.8 MB/sec 9 min 48 secs
Dbench was written by Andrew Tridgell to measure disk performance under
simulated samba network traffic load. The '48' means it's simulating
the file access patterns of 48 network clients, all doing heavy io at
the same time.
For anyone interested in checking these results on their own hardware,
dbench is available at:
ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/dbench-1.1.tar.gz
--
Daniel
Hi,
Some more numbers to consider:
7.3 MB/s 54.7s user 159.6s system 25% cpu elaspsed 14:21.9m
reiserfs on hda whick gets 16.1 MB/s from hdparm -t
9.7 MB/s 51.6s user 78.3s system 19% cpu elaspsed 10:50.8m
ext2 on hdb which gets 10.6 MB/s from hdparm -t
both drives are udma33. The sytem is a K6-III 400 with 128m running:
2.4.0test13pre6 + reil #2 + drm fix + reiserfs 3.6.23
Think ext2 is doing pretty good. I have seen comments that imply dbench
does not show reiserfs at its best - they favor the bonnie suite.
Luck
Ed Tomlinson
Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I've been using dbench a lot lately for reality checks on various kernel
> mods, and out of interest I decided to run benchmarks with it on a few
> different kernel versions. I noticed a major difference between 2.2 and
> 2.4 kernels - 2.4 is running the benchmarks about 3 times faster than
> 2.2, and it seems to be getting faster with each step towards 2.4.0. On
> the other hand, 2.2 seems to be getting slower. Here are a few points
> on the curve.
>
> Test machine: 64 meg, 500 Mhz K6, IDE, Ext2, Blocksize=4K
> Test: dbench 48
>
> Kernel Throughput Elapsed Time
> ------ ---------- ------------
> 2.2.16 3.1 MB/sec 33 min 53 secs
> 2.2.18 2.8 MB/sec 38 min 10 secs
> 2.2.19-pre3 2.7 MB/sec 39 min 44 secs
> 2.4.0-test12 7.3 MB/sec 14 min 32 secs
> 2.4.0-test13-pre4 9.5 MB/sec 11 min 06 secs
> 2.4.0-test13-pre5 10.8 MB/sec 9 min 48 secs
>
> Dbench was written by Andrew Tridgell to measure disk performance under
> simulated samba network traffic load. The '48' means it's simulating
> the file access patterns of 48 network clients, all doing heavy io at
> the same time.
>
> For anyone interested in checking these results on their own hardware,
> dbench is available at:
>
> ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/dbench-1.1.tar.gz
>
> --
> Daniel
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