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SubjectRe: announce: fsopbench - filesystem operations benchmark
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As explained in a mail earlier this week I am in the process of
> optimizing interactive performance for a file-server under high
> write load.
>
> To help in this venture, I have written a benchmark for measuring
> the response time of filesystem operations.
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/optools/wiki/fsopbench
>
> The benchmark program is able to generate a artificial filesystem
> tree with a file size distribution similar to a home directory tree.
>
> To simulate the write load it can fork of several writer processes
> in the background.
>
> It shows similar results on all configurations I have tested.
> In the example below you see:
>
> * lstat: 10 times slower
> * reading the first byte of a file: 80 times slower
> * reading a directory entry: 16 times slower
> * read rate: 40 times lower

lower and slower than what?

David Lang

> On top of that the standard deviation of the measurments goes way
> up with extreme maximal wait times in the 1 second range.
>
> Some numbers form 2.6.31 with cfq on an Areca HW Raid6 (the results
> from single disks are similar but less pronounced)
>
> Reading Only - Mode 30s Interval
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> A read dir cnt 29512 min 0.001 ms max 14.273 ms mean 0.081 ms stdev 0.694
> B lstat file cnt 27797 min 0.006 ms max 12.471 ms mean 0.071 ms stdev 0.571
> C open file cnt 22644 min 0.013 ms max 0.390 ms mean 0.019 ms stdev 0.012
> D rd 1st byte cnt 22644 min 0.114 ms max 23.614 ms mean 0.591 ms stdev 1.464
> E read rate 71.492 MB/s
>
> In-Competition with 6 Writers - Mode 30s Interval
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> A read dir cnt 625 min 0.001 ms max 167.049 ms mean 1.355 ms stdev 11.462
> B lstat file cnt 589 min 0.006 ms max 182.580 ms mean 0.503 ms stdev 7.747
> C open file cnt 479 min 0.014 ms max 0.134 ms mean 0.021 ms stdev 0.011
> D rd 1st byte cnt 479 min 0.180 ms max 1114.885 ms mean 40.708 ms stdev 143.536
> E read rate 1.566 MB/s
>
> I have been testing some patches provided by Corrado Zoccolo but no
> solution has been found yet.
>
> cheers
> tobi
>
>


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