IOMeter v2006.07.27 – IOps

IOMeter v2006.07.27 


Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 – since then it got wide spread within the industry.

Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). In November 2001, a project was registered at SourceForge.net and an initial drop was provided. Since the relaunch in February 2003, the project is driven by an international group of individuals who are continuesly improving, porting and extend the product.

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Our first set of IOMeter results show some definite benefits to running in a pair RAID-0 configuration and are able to keep performance close to that of the impressive solid state drives.  Comparing the RAID array to the single drive results, there are potentially huge benefits for I/Os per second for ALL of our work load scenarios.  These gains do have to ramp up though and you can see where the performance changes on the various graphs.


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