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: http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/postmark.html