Home Server Benchmarks
FS benchmarking of FreeBSD baremetal and within a VM against btrfs


nas4free baremetal: 

	Processor: AMD Turion II Neo N40L @ 1.50GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant MicroServer, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2741GB

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 + LLVM 3.1, File-System: ufs

nas4free kvmed LVM: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom 9550 (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 977GB, Audio: Intel 82801F HDA, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Legacy Connection 1.0.4

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), File-System: ufs


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 2.04 |====================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 1.09 |============================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 0.90 |====================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 0.64 |=====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 66.49 |===================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 55.65 |===========================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 52.95 |===================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 27.68 |===========================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 18.88 |===================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 9.50  |==========================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 35.52 |=======================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 46.91 |===================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 298 |=====================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 217 |=======================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
nas4free baremetal . 48.96 |============================
nas4free kvmed LVM . 90.55 |===================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 1  AVG: 27   MAX: 100 


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 1  AVG: 29   MAX: 100 


Compile Bench 0.6
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 10.2  AVG: 34.0  MAX: 90.7 


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 0.8   AVG: 52.7  MAX: 80.5 
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 14.0  AVG: 57.6  MAX: 74.8 


PostMark 1.51
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 1.6  AVG: 40.9  MAX: 75.8 


CPU Usage Monitor
Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring
Percent
nas4free kvmed LVM . MIN: 0  AVG: 38   MAX: 100