Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> On January 28, 2002 03:43 pm, Alex Davis wrote:
> > > Continuing that theme: please don't use dbench for benchmarks. At all.
> > > It's an unreliable indicator of anything in particular except perhaps
> > > stability. Please, use something else for your benchmarks.
> >
> > What do you suggest as an acceptable benchmark???
>
> A benchmark that tests disk/file system create/read/write/delete throughput,
> as dbench is supposed to? Though I haven't used it personally, others
> (Arjan) have suggested tiobench:
>
> http://tiobench.sourceforge.net/
>
Really, iozone isn't a benchmark as much as the "engine" of
a benchmark. It has so many options that you can use it
to build higher-level, more intelligent test suites by invoking it
in specific ways. read/write, mmap, MS_SYNC, MS_ASYNC, O_DIRECT,
aio, O_SYNC, fsync(), multiple threads, ...
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