[clug] Testing filesystem performance?
Simon Fowler
simon at himi.org
Sun Jun 27 01:50:35 GMT 2004
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:37:40AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
> one of the things I need to do to finish my FUSE talk is come up with
> some timings for how slow FUSE actually is. So far I've done three
> kernel compiles on an ext3 filesystem, and then three kernel compiles on
> a FUSE filesystem which rewrites all accesses straight back to that same
> ext3 filesystem.
>
> That's not a perfect metric, as we're also measuring how slow the hard
> disc and CPU in my laptop are...
>
> Do people have other suggestions as to how to test the performance of a
> filesystem? Google seems to suggest just creating a bunch of files and
> directories, syncing a few times, and then deleting some stuff.
>
You could try bonnie++, which is a fairly generic file
creation/deletion/read/write benchmark program.
Feeling lucky with Google should get you to the right place.
Simon
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