Re: Easy read-heavy benchmark kicking around?

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Easy read-heavy benchmark kicking around?
Date: 2006-11-08 16:18:00
Message-ID: 45520338.2050804@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Brian,

Brian Hurt wrote:

> So the question is: is there an easy to install and run, read-heavy
> benchmark out there that I can wave at them to get them to fix the
> problem?

For sequential read performance, use dd. Most variants of dd I've seen
output some timing information, and if not, do a "time dd
if=/your/device of=/dev/null bs=1M" on the partition.

Markus
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