Postmark: A new file system benchmark |
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Postmark description Results |
Postmark description
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The full Postmark specification can be obtained from
Network Appliance, Inc. Web server.
Also is available compiled OS-9 version
(including sources), which you can download from this site.
PostMark was designed to create a large pool of continually changing files and to measure the transaction rates for a workload approximating a large Internet electronic mail server. PostMark generates an initial pool of random text files ranging in size from a configurable low bound to a configurable high bound. This file pool is of configurable size and can be located on any accessible file system. Once the pool has been created (also producing statistics on continuous small file creation performance), a specified number of transactions occurs. Each transaction consists of a pair of smaller transactions:
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Results
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Tests were performed with the following values as default:
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