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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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"
"GnuPG - 1GB File Encryption (sec)",LIB,15.84,15.93,15.91,15.90,15.97,15.87
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,53.38,53.43,53.35,53.38,53.40,53.40
"Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3443,3447,3447,3437,3440,3433
"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
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8041,8076,8076,8085,8045,8032
"Gzip Compression - 2GB File Compression (sec)",LIB,14.36,14.62,14.31,14.52,14.33,14.53
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,20.99,20.95,20.83,21.44,21.74,20.70
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,201.61,201.24,200.99,201.30,201.83,201.47
"SQLite - 12,500 INSERTs (sec)",LIB,880.33,864.26,854.89,840.08,1204.92,1485.46
"Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,12281.33,12148.53,12471.13,12136.65,11944.80,12309.25
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,115.95,113.02,169.68,164.92,33.78,29.48
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,138.17,134.35,200.49,188.43,117.60,95.55
"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
"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
"FS-Mark - 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,14.05,13.07,14.95,18.70,14.62,16.73
"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
"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
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1895,1936,4166,4166,3090,3055
"AIO-Stress - Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,1158.37,1113.46,2031.73,2024.50,,
"Unpacking The Linux Kernel - linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 (sec)",LIB,11.15,11.15,10.71,10.89,10.67,10.76