[squid-users] I/O tests and squid

I wonder if anyone has a good I/O test which will sort of represent
the way squid needed the I/O to perform. Basically I need one program
which I can use to check the influence of various components of the
system ( OS, parameters, harddisk, library version ) on the I/O for
maximizing
squid performance.

For example, when I run on the ***SAME*** machine, one with a Fedora
Core 5 ( kernel 2.6.21.3 ) and one with uclibc-0.9.28 ( kernel 2.6.18 ),
using bonnie-1.4 ( a very old program and maybe buggy with respect to
the big size files ), this is the result :-

FC5 :
# ./Bonnie -s 2004 -d tmp
Bonnie 1.4: File 'tmp/Bonnie.24172', size: 2101346304, volumes: 1
Writing with putc()... done: 35399 kB/s 93.7 %CPU
Rewriting... done: 12557 kB/s 5.0 %CPU
Writing intelligently... done: 37587 kB/s 14.4 %CPU
Reading with getc()... done: 14878 kB/s 86.6 %CPU
Reading intelligently... done: 27846 kB/s -0.0 %CPU
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
              ---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input-- --Rnd
Seek-
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --04k
(03)-
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
%CPU
testin 1*2004 35399 93.7 37587 14.4 12557 5.0 14878 86.6 27846 -0.0
 130.3 -0.0

uclibc 0.9.28
# ./Bonnie -s 2004 -d tmp
Bonnie 1.4: File 'tmp/Bonnie.19932', size: 2101346304, volumes: 1
Writing with putc()... done: 44332 kB/s 35.9 %CPU
Rewriting... done: 18676 kB/s 11.3 %CPU
Writing intelligently... done: 49168 kB/s 18.5 %CPU
Reading with getc()... done: 39758 kB/s 30.5 %CPU
Reading intelligently... done: 44955 kB/s 13.8 %CPU
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
              ---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input-- --Rnd
Seek-
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --04k
(03)-
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
%CPU
cnxsq 1*2004 44332 35.9 49168 18.5 18676 11.3 39758 30.5 44955 13.8 116.6
0.7

It seems that the I/O on uclibc-based system runs better than a FC5 system.
This is will opposite to my expectation. I am not sure if the conclusion
will
be applicable to running squid.

However, when I run the bonnie++-1.93c ( statically compiled version since
the
said uclibc system does not have C++ runtime ), the performance of both
configurations are almost identical.

Appreciate comments.

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Received on Sun Aug 12 2007 - 22:09:04 MDT