On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:35:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:06:23AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> > This is an interesting point.
> > 
> > In a single threaded single client `big copy', it's possible that TCP
> > with 32K block sizes will appear faster. Guess what type of benchmark
> > `bonnie' is? It's also why bonnie is a crap benchmark for anything
> > other than raw throughput; it is NOT good for testing the system
> > in a manner that is anything like a real world environment for most 
> > workloads, including `multiple clients (users/processes) all hammering
> > the one disk'.
> 
> Depend on what your "real world" is. Most of my NFS client are workstartions,
> for which a single threaded benchmark is close enouth.

yes, but most of NFS servers serve multiple workstations. So you still need
a multi-threaded workload to see something useful.

Regards,
	-is