<p>the advantage to some of the heavier tools is that they attempt to break caching mechanisms so that you can see worst case performance. <br>
dd looks cool since it certainly skips any possibility of filesystem speedups. <br>
I'd just say to make sure 1G (or whatever you test with) is large enough to break controller and on-disk cache. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2011 9:21 AM, "Isaac Levy" <<a href="mailto:ike@blackskyresearch.net">ike@blackskyresearch.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Henry M wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">Whenever I've bench-marked disks, I've always just used dd and /dev/zero<span> </span><br>
<br> Example: I want to see how fast I can write a 1GB file<br><br>$ dd if=/dev/zero of=1GB bs=1024 count=1048576<br>1048576+0 records in<br>1048576+0 records out<br>1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.72947 s, 123 MB/s<br>
<br>As long as the system load is consistent, you should get consistent results. You can have fun by running multiple versions at once, to simulate heavier "real-world" load.<span> </span><br></span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Oh- &, a little xargs, and some date(1) and time(1) fun.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><br>
You can change the byte size, or count accordingly. Just be careful what values you give dd, you can easily fill up your disk, or break something nasty with a typo (Yes I've done both )<br><br>-Henry</span></blockquote>
</div><br><div>Yeaaahhhh- this is exactly what I was thinking, but I didn't think to just dd from /dev/zero and build some small tests.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweet.</div><div><br></div><div>Rocket-</div><div>.ike</div>
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