Filesystem SATA NCQ

Benchmarking disk write cache on a SATA2 NCQ capable configuration. I added a few generic CPU tests as a reference for the system performance. The tests are going to try different file systems with or without write barrier and w/ or w/out disk write cache. The default CFQ scheduler is being used.

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ext3-barrier-cache
May 10 2011
 
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May 11 2011
 
ext4-barrier-cache
May 13 2011
 
ext4-nobarrier-nocache
May 16 2011
 
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May 16 2011
 
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May 17 2011
 
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Filesystem SATA NCQ Benchmarking disk write cache on a SATA2 NCQ capable configuration. I added a few generic CPU tests as a reference for the system performance. The tests are going to try different file systems with or without write barrier and w/ or w/out disk write cache. The default CFQ scheduler is being used. ,,"ext3-barrier-cache","ext3-nobarrier-nocache","ext4-barrier-cache","ext4-nobarrier-nocache","btrfs-cow-barrier-cache","btrfs-nocow-nobarrier-nocache" Processor,,Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,LENOVO 5852CB6,LENOVO 5852CB6,LENOVO 5852CB6,LENOVO 5852CB6,LENOVO 5852CB6,LENOVO 5852CB6 Chipset,,Intel Core,Intel Core,Intel Core,Intel Core,Intel Core,Intel Core Memory,,7680MB,7680MB,7680MB,7680MB,7680MB,7680MB Disk,,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0,320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKX-0 Graphics,,Intel Core IGP 256MB,Intel Core IGP 256MB,Intel Core IGP 256MB,Intel Core IGP 256MB,Intel Core IGP 256MB,Intel Core IGP 256MB OS,,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11,SUSE LINUX 11 Kernel,,2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64),2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64),2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64),2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64),2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64),2.6.32.12-0.7-default (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME 2.28.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.6.5,X Server 1.6.5,X Server 1.6.5,X Server 1.6.5,X Server 1.6.5,X Server 1.6.5 Display Driver,,intel 2.10.0,intel 2.10.0,intel 2.10.0,intel 2.10.0,intel 2.10.0,intel 2.10.0 OpenGL,,1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7),1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7),1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7),1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7),1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7),1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7) Compiler,,GCC 4.3,GCC 4.3,GCC 4.3,GCC 4.3,GCC 4.3,GCC 4.3 File-System,,ext3,ext3,ext2/ext3,ext2/ext3,Btrfs,Btrfs Screen Resolution,,1680x1050,1680x1050,1680x1050,1680x1050,1680x1050,1680x1050 ,,"ext3-barrier-cache","ext3-nobarrier-nocache","ext4-barrier-cache","ext4-nobarrier-nocache","btrfs-cow-barrier-cache","btrfs-nocow-nobarrier-nocache" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8041,8076,8076,8085,8045,8032 "AIO-Stress - Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,1158.37,1113.46,2031.73,2024.50,, "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,12281.33,12148.53,12471.13,12136.65,11944.80,12309.25 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,138.17,134.35,200.49,188.43,117.60,95.55 "Dbench - 1 Clients (MB/s)",HIB,11.54,10.32,11.23,10.83,9.91,9.69 "Dbench - 12 Clients (MB/s)",HIB,19.96,38.11,50.80,77.10,48.14,29.37 "Dbench - 48 Clients (MB/s)",HIB,21.04,79.31,72.32,165.95,107.14,50.46 "Dbench - 128 Clients (MB/s)",HIB,13.73,80.70,70.14,162.69,132.76,46.54 "Flexible IO Tester - Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern (sec (Run Time))",LIB,87.42,87.99,52.74,61.22,55.98,51.98 "FS-Mark - 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,14.05,13.07,14.95,18.70,14.62,16.73 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3443,3447,3447,3437,3440,3433 "GnuPG - 1GB File Encryption (sec)",LIB,15.84,15.93,15.91,15.90,15.97,15.87 "Gzip Compression - 2GB File Compression (sec)",LIB,14.36,14.62,14.31,14.52,14.33,14.53 "IOzone - 8GB Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,74.76,71.39,113.82,111.21,121.95,124.94 "IOzone - 8GB Read Performance (MB/s)",HIB,60.78,60.85,66.27,66.09,79.86,85.53 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3246000,3248667,3243000,3251333,3249667,3250667 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,15273,15189,15255,15283,15278,15232 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,897,899,897,899,898,898 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,201.61,201.24,200.99,201.30,201.83,201.47 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,53.38,53.43,53.35,53.38,53.40,53.40 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,20.99,20.95,20.83,21.44,21.74,20.70 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,115.95,113.02,169.68,164.92,33.78,29.48 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1895,1936,4166,4166,3090,3055 "SQLite - 12,500 INSERTs (sec)",LIB,880.33,864.26,854.89,840.08,1204.92,1485.46 "Threaded I/O Tester - 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads (MB/s)",HIB,6489.86,6460.17,6360.62,6531.73,6464.87,6481.51 "Threaded I/O Tester - 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads (MB/s)",HIB,2.36,1.45,3.40,1.73,51.70,1.70 "Unpacking The Linux Kernel - linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 (sec)",LIB,11.15,11.15,10.71,10.89,10.67,10.76