It's the Bonnie Benchmark Show!!

Speed testing with bonnie++..... Doesn't everyone do this?

bonnie++ -d /tmp/bonnie-tests/ -s 4G:64k -n 10:1048576:1024:1024 \
-m "Valkyrie - 2 Disc RAID1 - ATA133 7200RPM - LVM - ext4" \
-u nobody -g nobody -x 5 > bonnie-results/valkyre1.csv

People babble on about RAID-x is faster than RAID-y or filesystem x is faster than filesystem y. I don't care for people's anecdotal evidence. Just like your butt-dyno readings for your car mean nothing so do your anecdotes about drive/raid/filesystem performance. Give me numbers or get out!

I like benchmarking the toys I have access too. So, I figured I'd share some of the bonnie tests that I've run on different systems.

- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext3
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - xfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - jfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - reiser
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - btrfs
- Clariion SATA RAID5+0 4gig FC Multipath - xfs
- Clariion SCSI RAID5+0+0 4gig FC Multipath - xfs
- Clariion SCSI RAID5 4gig FC Multipath - xfs
- Clariion SCSI RAID10 4gig FC Multipath - xfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - btrfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext3
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext4
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - jfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - reiser
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID10 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - xfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext3
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext4
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - xfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - jfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - reiser
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - 3ware 8506-8 RAID5 - 6 disc SATA 7200RPM - btrfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID5 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext3
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID5 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext4
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID5 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - xfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID5 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - jfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID5 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - btrfs
- Valkyrie - Dual 2.8 Xeon 2G RAM - LVM - (soft) RAID10 - 8 disc SATA 7200RPM - ext4