> Don't forget pkgsrc/benchmarks/postmark....
> 
> Also untar pkgsrc.tar.gz and then "rm -rf" it.
> 
> > So, my question to the gang is, I want one tool,
> > one test, I am thinking bonnie.
> 
> no, postmark would be better.  bonnie won't do much different for
> softdep -- it's geared for testing maximum I/O rates on a single file,
> not general throughput of all operations.
> 
> When I was testing external RAID hardware performance vs. cache size and
> chunk-size I used the following:
> 
> # printf 'set bias read 5\nset bias create 5\nset size 10240 20480\nset transactions 100000\nset subdirectories 10\nset number 10000\nshow\nrun\n' | postmark 
> 
thanks for the input greg, i will give it a go. i really appreciate
it.

	jrf