There is another benchmark tool named "iozone" (http://www.iozone.org/).
Hope this help. Cesare On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:30, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So - using plain dd to the zfs filesystem on said disk >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=delete.me bs=65536 > NB: dd from /dev/zero is a poor benchmark. Since the writes to disk > are all zero, you may create a sparse file, or ZFS itself may omit the > writes corresponding to the blocks that make up that file when it > realizes they're entirely composed of zeroes. I would suggest > bonnie++ as a more suitable benchmark; it compiles easily on Solaris > 10, or I can post a package if you'd like. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
