{"id":621,"date":"2012-01-13T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/techblog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2012-01-13T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:56:20","slug":"samba-freebsd-8-2-benchmarks-pre-upgrade-to-freebsd-9-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/unix-linux\/samba-freebsd-8-2-benchmarks-pre-upgrade-to-freebsd-9-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba FreeBSD 8.2 benchmarks (pre-upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m about to upgrade to FreeBSD. While I csup the latest RELENG-9.0 branch, I’m looking at my Samba performance on 8.2.<\/p>\n

I’m measuring a copy of FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso<\/code> to the Samba server using the following batch file (taken from here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

@echo off<\/p>\n

set starttime=%TIME%
\nset startcsec=%STARTTIME:~9,2%
\nset startsecs=%STARTTIME:~6,2%
\nset startmins=%STARTTIME:~3,2%
\nset starthour=%STARTTIME:~0,2%
\nset \/a starttime=(%starthour%*60*60*100)+(%startmins%*60*100)+(%startsecs%*100)+
\n(%startcsec%)<\/p>\n

:TimeThis
\ncopy C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop\\FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz \\\\SERVER\\Poojan\\Downloads<\/p>\n

set endtime=%time%
\nset endcsec=%endTIME:~9,2%
\nset endsecs=%endTIME:~6,2%
\nset endmins=%endTIME:~3,2%
\nset endhour=%endTIME:~0,2%
\nif %endhour% LSS %starthour% set \/a endhour+=24
\nset \/a endtime=(%endhour%*60*60*100)+(%endmins%*60*100)+(%endsecs%*100)+(%endcsec%)<\/p>\n

set \/a timetaken= ( %endtime% – %starttime% )
\nset \/a timetakens= %timetaken% \/ 100
\nset timetaken=%timetakens%.%timetaken:~-2%<\/p>\n

echo.
\necho Took: %timetaken% sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_copy.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 77.34 sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n

That’s a 1751164811 byte file, so that’s 21.59 MiB\/s. To receive:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

@echo off<\/p>\n

set starttime=%TIME%
\nset startcsec=%STARTTIME:~9,2%
\nset startsecs=%STARTTIME:~6,2%
\nset startmins=%STARTTIME:~3,2%
\nset starthour=%STARTTIME:~0,2%
\nset \/a starttime=(%starthour%*60*60*100)+(%startmins%*60*100)+(%startsecs%*100)+
\n(%startcsec%)<\/p>\n

:TimeThis
\ncopy \\\\SERVER\\Downloads\\FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1\\FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso\u00a0 C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop
\nset endtime=%time%
\nset endcsec=%endTIME:~9,2%
\nset endsecs=%endTIME:~6,2%
\nset endmins=%endTIME:~3,2%
\nset endhour=%endTIME:~0,2%
\nif %endhour% LSS %starthour% set \/a endhour+=24
\nset \/a endtime=(%endhour%*60*60*100)+(%endmins%*60*100)+(%endsecs%*100)+(%endcsec%)<\/p>\n

set \/a timetaken= ( %endtime% – %starttime% )
\nset \/a timetakens= %timetaken% \/ 100
\nset timetaken=%timetakens%.%timetaken:~-2%<\/p>\n

echo.
\necho Took: %timetaken% sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_recv.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 109.23 sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n

This is a 2,388,531,200 byte file, so that’s 20.85 MiB\/s.<\/p>\n

I’ll repeat these later, when the csup is done–just in case the download on the server is hurting things.<\/p>\n

OK: it’s done. Re-running:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_recv.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 52.72 sec.<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_recv.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 43.23 sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n

So, that’s 43.2 MiB\/s and 52.69 MiB\/s. Trying it again, I get 42.09 MiB\/s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_send.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 73.38 sec.<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Poojan\\Desktop>time_send.bat
\n1 file(s) copied.<\/p>\n

Took: 71.85 sec.<\/p>\n

<\/code>\n

So, these are a bit more consistent: 22.76 MiB\/s and 23.24 MiB\/s.\u00a0 Running it a third time gives 16.4 MiB, but I was running gstat, top, etc. while that was going.<\/p>\n