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[Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed

2006-05-05 10:39:23
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed
From: roy_vosberg AT symantec DOT com (Roy Vosberg)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:39:23 -0500
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Here are some tests you can run :
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TEST CLIENT DISK READ SPEED

1) Read the data and write to /dev/null:
  a) with tar
       timex tar cvf /dev/null /dssu1
b) with bpbkar
       timex /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar -dt 0 -r 888 -nocont /dssu1 =
> /dev/null

2) Read the data and write to /dev/rmt/0cbn:
  a) with tar
       mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew
       timex tar cvfb /dev/rmt/0cbn 512 /dssu1
  b) with bpbkar
       mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew
       timex /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbkar -dt 0 -r 888 -nocont /dssu1 =
> /dev/rmt/0cbn





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Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:17 AM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 2Gb/s FC read speed



veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 05/05/2006 08:52:26 AM:

> Tools like iometer on Windows and Bonnie on Unix can help you =
benchmark
> your disk subsystem.  You can also do backups to the null device.  See
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm.  This allows you to
> have bpkar32 process data locally, and elmiinate network connectivity
> and tape performance from the picture. =20

Thats awesome, I'll do that later this afternoon on the dssu's.=20

So far i was doing cp /dssu1 /tmp and iostat'ing that BUT as /tmp fills =
up so does swap.=20



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Bonnie on=20
Unix can help you benchmark<BR>&gt; your disk subsystem. &nbsp;You can =
also do=20
backups to the null device. &nbsp;See<BR>&gt;=20
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/242918.htm. &nbsp;This allows you=20
to<BR>&gt; have bpkar32 process data locally, and elmiinate network=20
connectivity<BR>&gt; and tape performance from the picture.=20
&nbsp;<BR></TT></FONT><BR><FONT size=3D2><TT>Thats awesome, I'll do that =
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