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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jim Nance wrote:
> The original question is enough of an FAQ that I thought it would be good to
> have real numbers rather than just my assurances that Linux has a fast FS
> layer. Therefore I wrote a benchmarking program that creates/writes/destroys
> files and ran it under several operating systems and on several types of
> file systems. I have included that program as an attachment to this mail.
> Here are the results:
>
> OS Hardware FS Type Loops/Second
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Linux 2.2.5-ac6 1 nfs 16.33
> Linux 2.2.5-ac6 1 arla 73.67
> Linux 2.2.5-ac6 1 ext2 15383.32
> Solaris 2.6 2 afs 71.33
> Solaris 2.6 2 nfs 10.00
> Solaris 2.6 2 ufs 23.67
> Solaris 2.6 2 tmpfs 9162.32
> Digital Unix 4.0D 3 afs 49.33
> Digital Unix 4.0D 3 nfs 14.67
> Digital Unix 4.0D 3 ufs 28.67
> Digital Unix 4.0D 3 memfs 3062.66
> Linux 2.0.33 4 afs 69.33
> Linux 2.0.33 4 nfs 15.00
> Linux 2.0.33 4 ext2 2218.33
>
> Hardware:
> 1 -> 333 MHz PII, 512M ram, Compaq WDE4360W disk
> 2 -> Ultra450 class Sun server (300MHz?)
> 3 -> Personal Workstation 600 AU. 600 MHz alpha. 1.5G ram
> 4 -> 75 MHz Pentium, 32M ram, Segate ST31200N disk
Can you try the Solaris "fastfs" utility and post the results? It should
make ufs performance much closer to ext2 (and give you the same
reliability as ext2 (for better or worse, but it has been a *LONG* time
since I've seen my Solaris or Linux boxes panic)).
I've attached the source for fastfs.
Dax Kelson
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