At 9:58 AM -0700 1999/9/17, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> It seems pretty clear to me that this benchmark has been designed
> to show-off the netapp in the best possible light and its competitors
> in the worst possible light. Well, ok, that may be an overly-harsh
> assessment, but it is still true to some degree. The benchmark is
> seriously flawed.
Might I then request that you help rewrite it so that it performs
a much more comprehensive testing of OS/filesystem throughput?
Myself, I'd really love to see something that lets you seriously
stress your system along the lines of Greg Lehey's rawio, but instead
at a higher level. IMO, bonnie sucks worse than postmark, although
they're measuring different things.
Although it should certainly be forking, whether forking or not I
can tell you that creating huge directories is not necessarily a bad
simulation of a heavily-used mail server. I've seen mail servers
with over 100,000 files in /var/spool/mqueue, both at former
employers (like AOL), and at former customer sites (such as some of
the largest freemail providers in the world).
I can't speak for anything else that the program is supposedly
testing, but at least this aspect of performance is one of the most
common, and yet most easily dealt with, problems I have run across in
all my years of managing large mail systems.
That's why directory size is #1 on the hit parade in the
presentation I occasionally give entitled "Sendmail Performance
Tuning for Large Systems", most recently given at SANE'98. See
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/sendmail-tuning/> if you
want copies of the slides.
--
These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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