Hello all, I'm creating a site where people can share their benchmarks. If you are interested, the site is at (I just started on it so it has the stock graphics and color scheme still): www.dcsnow.com/mambo I would like some thoughts on what would be a good way to standardize the testing so the results are more comparable. Is Bonnie+ a good program for hard drive speed testing? Is there a better option? I personally prefer hdparm but that is not an option for those who have SCSI. And what about the client to server copies? I personally just copy the file and use a stopwatch. I could write a program for Windows that would automate the process if one doesn't exist. So, lots of questions. Any help would be appreciated.
Good idea! Bonnie++ is good, I also like tiobench as it benchmarks the block device's IO capabilities... I used a stopwatch as well, I suppose a small program that will copy a large file and give back a rate would be useful in benchmarking. I suppose that as far as standardizing, well all you need to is to specify the file size and type (gz/zip for example). A good idea would be to bench small files, reasonably sized files yet smaller than RAM and then a big file (say 4GB) which must be bigger than RAM... That way you can get an idea of what RAM -> RAM and Disk -> Disk transfers are like and how they differ, with a medium sized file you'd get a mixture of RAM and Disk. Just thoughts, feel free to criticize.. ;) Peter. PS: Did you find that Compaq PPro machine and run some tests? -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+peter=totallinux.com.br@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+peter=totallinux.com.br@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of AragonX Sent: s?bado, 21 de maio de 2005 08:07 To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Standardized Benchmarking? Hello all, I'm creating a site where people can share their benchmarks. If you are interested, the site is at (I just started on it so it has the stock graphics and color scheme still): www.dcsnow.com/mambo I would like some thoughts on what would be a good way to standardize the testing so the results are more comparable. Is Bonnie+ a good program for hard drive speed testing? Is there a better option? I personally prefer hdparm but that is not an option for those who have SCSI. And what about the client to server copies? I personally just copy the file and use a stopwatch. I could write a program for Windows that would automate the process if one doesn't exist. So, lots of questions. Any help would be appreciated. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 20/5/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 20/5/2005
I'd be very interested in such a site, as long as people acutally put data there. I've wanted to see other's benchmarks/setups for years. Getting people to actually talk is hard. For windows benchmarking to the sabam server, you can download timethis.exe from MS site, http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/timethis-o.asp It'll time any command you run via command line, that's much better than the GUI stopwatch technique. We use bonnie++ all the time, I *think* it's a well respected benchmarker for unix. And it's free. Alex On Sat, 21 May 2005, AragonX wrote:> Hello all, > > I'm creating a site where people can share their benchmarks. If you are > interested, the site is at (I just started on it so it has the stock > graphics and color scheme still): > > www.dcsnow.com/mambo > > I would like some thoughts on what would be a good way to standardize the > testing so the results are more comparable. Is Bonnie+ a good program for > hard drive speed testing? Is there a better option? I personally prefer > hdparm but that is not an option for those who have SCSI. > > And what about the client to server copies? I personally just copy the > file and use a stopwatch. I could write a program for Windows that would > automate the process if one doesn't exist. > > So, lots of questions. Any help would be appreciated. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
peter
2005-May-28 22:19 UTC
[Samba] Horrendously slow transfer speeds in FC3 is driving mecrazy!!! Please help... - SOLVED!
Hello, I finally got round to running the tests with other NICs, and I think I've solved the problem! With a 3c905B I get: SMB - 7.2 MB/s (45% CPU usage) FTP - 9.9 MB/s And with a DEC 21140 based card I get: SMB - 5.8 MB/s (36% CPU usage) FTP - 7.5 MB/s When compared to what I was getting (1.6 MB/s) with the NIC that comes with the server (TLAN - NetIntelligent 10/100) it's a HUGE difference!!! Now I think that it's just a question of tweaking the smb.conf file to get the SMB rate closer to the FTP rate! So it turns out that there is nothing wrong with FC3 or Samba 3, it was just my old hardware! It's amazing what a DMA capable NIC can do for the overall system performance. Peter.