On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Steve Cousins <cous...@umit.maine.edu> wrote: > > Hi Rahul,
Thanks for all those comments Steve! > > One thing to try with bonnie++ is to run multiple instances at the same > time. For our tests, one single instance of bonnie showed 560 MB/sec writes > and 524 MB/sec reads. Going to 4 instances at the same time brought it up to > an aggregate of ~600 MB/sec writes and ~950 MB/sec reads. That's interesting. Multiple bonnie++ instances boost the aggregate performance? Why is that? Just curious. > > Once the server has the performance you want, I'd use Netcat from a number Thanks! I've never tried using netcat. That's a good lead for a tool to try. > > Good luck. It can be quite a process sorting through it all. I really just > meant to comment on your use of only one instance of Bonnie++ on the server. > Sorry to go beyond the scope of your question. You probably have already > done these other things in a different way. Not at all. What you suggest is very much within the scope of my current investigation. And no, I don't think I've tried the ideas you mention. So this is new and helpful. Thanks again! -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
