4 Oct
2006
4 Oct
'06
4:51 a.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:13, Feizhou wrote:
Here is an example of a good benchmark for those doing mail storage with the Maildir format:
http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/
Complete with the tools needed for you to perform your own tests.
The NetApp people used to have one called 'postmark' that was good for measuring the speed of creating and deleting small files. I've lost track of it, but I think the last time I mentioned it someone said it was packaged for Debian and available in their repositories.
IIRC, postmark also suffered from the lack of use of fsync...yes, it does suffer from that: