Areca vs. ZFS performance testing.

[Danny Carroll]

Good idea.

Actually, what I will do eventually is *also* post the results to the
mailing list.  It will probably be around long after my own server is gone.

-D

Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Danny Carroll wrote:
>> Danny Carroll wrote:
>>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>>> I'd like to see the performance difference between these scenarios:
>>>>
>>>> - Memory cache enabled on Areca, write caching enabled on disks
>>>> - Memory cache enabled on Areca, write caching disabled on disks
>>>> - Memory cache disabled on Areca, write caching enabled on disks
>>>> - Memory cache disabled on Areca, write caching disabled on disks
>>>>
>>
>>
>> The initial results for a ICH9 vs Areca in JBod mode can be found here:
>> http://www.dannysplace.net/ZFS-JBODTests.html
> 
> Just as a polite question, since I'm very much in favor doing
> benchmarking and do appreciate these kinds of test.
> 
> You might want to add an introductory page to your results describing
> how you setup the test:
>     Details of the hardware
>     Details of the disk setup
>     possible version and options with bonnie
>     The script you used....
> 
> This would allow others to redo your experiment and try to figure out
> why their numbers are different.
> 
> --WjW
> 
>