As requested by some, these are some graphs of the benchmarks I’ve run on my home NAS. Bear in mind that I didn’t made this NAS for screaming performance. It just had to stream movies, pictures but also keep them save and this with ‘green’ in the back of my mind.
for the setup of the machine, check my previous blog post.
Bonnie benchmark on a ZFS mirror with compression disabled
Bonnie benchmark on a ZFS mirror with compression enabled (LZJB)
Conclusion: I think this is a fair performance for home use, even if you think that the drives I use are optimized for reduced power (‘green’) usage and are running at 5200rpm. Also compression seems to improve disk I/O as it needs less data to be send/read to the disks but will use more CPU and thus.. also more power..
Next UP: power measurements.
I am trying to install bonnie on Solaris Express 11 but I dont see it in the packages … could you help on how you installed it ?
Hi Anthony, you can grab the source tarbals at http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ (use bonnie++-1.03d.tgz because the latest version with direct io didn’t work for me) and compile bonnie++. I also had to use gmake instead of make.. good luck!
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