On Friday 06 January 2012 09:10:02 Felix Frank wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 06:22 PM, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> > But I hoped for some increased performance when running two
> > independent processes reading two different files.
> 
> in most load balancing scenarios, I wouldn't expect to notice any
> performance differences between one and two clients respectively.
> 
> I would include as many clients in any load test as the system under
> test can sensibly service. In the case of disk performance, this will
> not be easy, seeing as you need to be careful not to measure your page
> cache performance instead of disk performance etc.
> 
> Still, I believe you may get better results if you can find some "true
> world" application that is both multi threaded and I/O bound, and have
> it do some heavy lifting with and without disk load balancing.
> 
> MySQL comes to mind, if you drastically limit its in-memory caches.

dbench would be my current weapon of choice. And then do a test of 2^x (with 
x=[1,10]) clients.

Arnold

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