Re: bonnie comparisons of 2.0.34 and 2.1.105

Samuli Kaski (samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 03:43:54 +0300 (EEST)


On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Andrew J. Anderson wrote:

> I thought the list would be interested in this comparison of bonnie results:
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
> 2.0.34 500 1117 16.2 1111 5.8 607 31.2 1426 92.7 1605 95.6 17.9 0.5
> 2.1.105 500 2208 21.8 2230 6.9 1214 24.3 3425 83.9 4280 82.1 26.8 0.7

I think there is more to it. I get decreasing (avg ~1-20%) bonnie
performance with 2.1.105 compaired to 2.0.3x but still 2.1.105 is
lightyears :) faster than 2.0 just in about anything - even the bare eye
can see it.

So basically what I wanted to say is: it is easy to do benchmarks but it
is quite tricky to interpret their results correctly.

Of course the results above would make perfect sense if there had been a
Adaptec driver update that would count for a 100% increase in
performance; which hasn't been the case for my ncr53c875.

--
Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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