Piozone - Peter's Disk Performance Benchmarking Tool

LICENSE:

Piozone is freely available and may be used by anyone without any restrictions except that you may not pretend that you wrote this...

If you find this to be a valuable tool then I'd gladly accept a nice bottle of whisky (or suitable alternative) :-)

REQUIREMENTS:

An ANSI C Compiler.

DOWNLOAD:

Main FTP site: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/piozone

BENCHMARK RESULTS:

Below follows some results from piozone runs on different systems and hardware/software-RAID/no-RAID variants. I'd be happy to include new results for new/old/other hardware. Just send me the results to me email address (see above).

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System:       Fujitsu Siemens PRIMEPOWER 200/2x700MHz, Solaris 8/SPARC
Interconnect: 1xFC(2Gbit/s)
RAID:         FSC S80, RAID 5 (12+1 73GB Seagate Cheetah, 10000rpm):


Linear read transfer rates:

 36.2 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads
 43.8 MB/s at offset  54 GB using 1024 KiB reads

 68.7 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads (2x piozone, 1 LUN)
 69.8 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads (2x piozone, 2 LUN)
105.0 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads (3x piozone, 3 LUN)

 84.6 MB/s at offset  54 GB using 1024 KiB reads (2x piozone, 2 LUN)


Random access read transfer rates (area size: 1 GiB):

 88.3 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads
128.4 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads (2x piozone, 1 LUN)
138.5 MB/s at offset  54 GB using   64 KiB reads (2x piozone, 2 LUN)



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System:       Sun Ultra 60/2x360MHz, Solaris 7/SPARC
Interconnect: 1xSCSI(40MB/s)
RAID:         CMD CRD-5500, RAID 5 (5+1 73GB Seagate Cheetah, 10000rpm):


Linear read transfer rates:

 12.6 MB/s at offset  36 GB using   64 KiB reads
 15.4 MB/s at offset  36 GB using 1024 KiB reads
 17.5 MB/s at offset  36 GB using   64 KiB reads (2x piozone, 1 LUN)


Random access read transfer rates (area size: 1 GiB):

  6.9 MB/s at offset  36 GB using   64 KiB reads



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System:       Sun Ultra 60/2x360MHz, Solaris 8/SPARC
Interconnect: 2xSCSI(80MB/s)
RAID:         Software (DiskSuite), RAID 1 (2x73GB Seagate Cheetah, 10000rpm):


Linear read transfer rates:

 32.8 MB/s at offset  36 GB using   64 KiB reads
 35.8 MB/s at offset  36 GB using 1024 KiB reads

 
Random access read transfer rates (area size: 1 GiB):

  9.6 MB/s at offset  36 GB using   64 KiB reads

 

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System:       Sun Enterprise 4500/14x400MHz, Solaris 8/SPARC
Interconnect: 1xSCSI(40MB/s)
RAID:         Software (DiskSuite), RAID 0 (4x18GB Seagate Cheetah, 10000rpm):


Linear read transfer rates:

 22.2 MB/s at offset  35 GB using   64 KiB reads
 24.9 MB/s at offset  35 GB using 1024 KiB reads

 
Random access read transfer rates (area size: 1 GiB):

  7.3 MB/s at offset  35 GB using   64 KiB reads

 

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System:       Sun Blade 1000/2x750MHz, Solaris 8/SPARC
Interconnect: 1xFC(1GBit/s)
RAID:         None - single disk (1x73GB Seagate Cheetah, 10000rpm)


Linear read transfer rates:

 27.9 MB/s at offset  10 GB using   64 KiB reads
 28.3 MB/s at offset  10 GB using 1024 KiB reads

 
Random access read transfer rates (area size: 1 GiB):

  7.4 MB/s at offset  10 GB using   64 KiB reads



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