ZFS benchmark I have a 64-bit box with a ZFS raidx2 array. It now has 4GB of RAM and I recently purchased another 4GB. I thought I might do some benchmarks on it before and after I install the additional RAM. I will be using the benchmarks/bonnie++ port. The intial tests In this section I […]
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan
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hint – A scalable benchmark for testing CPU and memory I was about to change the 486 in fred.nz.freebsd.org for a Pentium. I installed and used hint to see the performance differences. Installing hint hint is available in the ports under /usr/ports/benchmarks/hint. Because I had all the port skeletons installed, the installation was simple:
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rawio – testing device performance After I installed vinum, I wanted to compare the performance of the vinum and non-vinum volumes. I was told about Greg Lehay’s benchmark program, rawio. From man rawio: rawio tests the speed of the low-level character I/O device special in a concurrent environment. It is intended for comparisons of storage
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