[linux-lvm] LVM 1.0 performance

Adrian Phillips a.phillips at dnmi.no
Tue Aug 21 05:23:26 UTC 2001


>>>>> "José" == José Luis Domingo López <jdomingo at internautas.org> writes:

    José> Hardware and software setup as follows: AMD K7 1200, KT133
    José> northbridge and VIA 868b southbridge 128 MB RAM (don't know
    José> if 100 MHz or 133 MHz, sorry) Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux
    José> kernel 2.4.7 compiled with Athlon optimizations hda:
    José> ST320413A, ATA DISK drive hdc: ST315323A, ATA DISK drive
    José> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/512KiB Cache,
    José> CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(66) hdc: 30008475 sectors (15364 MB)
    José> w/512KiB Cache, CHS=29770/16/63, UDMA(66) Linux software
    José> RAID version 0.90.x and corresponding tools Linux LVM 1.0

    José> Performance tests where conducted using "bonnie", as shipped
    José> with Mandrake 8.0. Each test was run at least 5 times, with
    José> a test size double the size of installed RAM (command line
    José> is: bonnie -s 256). Results are averages, but those runs
    José> that deviate too much from the average are removed from the
    José> calculation.

This may be FUD but I would use Bonnie++, I know Russell Coker quite
often writes this (but then he is the author :-). At any rate,
comparisons are difficult when different tools are used.

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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