Simon Capstick wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> Simon Capstick wrote:
>>> Brian Chivers wrote:
>>>> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together with iSCSI on gigabit
>>>> ethernet. I'd like to test the filesystem performance, the iSCSI target is an OpenFiler box & the
>>>> client / initiator is a Centos 5.3 machine with the iSCSI mounted as ext3.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone got any recommendation for testing software or has anyone played around with this sort of
>>>> setup?
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at Iozone and it looks very good but a little too complicated for me at the moment at
>>>> this early stage.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>> Bonnie++ ?
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>> Thanks for the pointer.
>>
>> I've run the tests just got to try & understand the results now :-)
>>
>> Have you ever run bonnie ? any pointers as to how to interpret the results ??
>>
>> Brian
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>
> It's been a while, but I would start by benchmarking several storage
> devices including a bog standard single drive. Then put the data into
> a spreadsheet or table so you can actually read the data, so you have
> something like this...
>
> http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/res0.90.html
>
> Simon
>
>
I used the bon_csv2html2 script to generate some tables and combined them into the page below. The
first two tables are from the same machine & the second is one of our main servers which has a PERC4
SCSI card but the trouble is I don't know what I'm looking at, is this good bad or indifferent :-)
http://ww2.portsmouth-college.ac.uk/brian/bonnie.html
Brian
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