Benchmarks
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CPU Benchmarks
The following results were obtained using nbench 2.2.2
All nbench results are in comparison to an AMD K6 233Mhz reference system.
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CPU | LS1 (PPC) | LS2 (MIPSel) | HG (PPC) | AMD (K6) |
Clock Speed | 200Mhz | 400Mhz | 266Mhz | 233Mhz |
Firmware | FreeLink 1.1 | OpenLink 0.52b | FreeLink 1.11 | Linux |
Numeric Sort | 0.75 | 0.79 | 1.01 | 1.00 |
String Sort | 0.56 | 0.53 | 0.75 | 1.00 |
Bitfield | 1.02 | 1.30 | 1.37 | 1.00 |
FP Emulation | 1.11 | 1.08 | 1.49 | 1.00 |
Fourier | 0.65 | 0.00 | 0.88 | 1.00 |
Assignment | 0.83 | 1.17 | 1.13 | 1.00 |
Idea | 1.34 | 2.50 | 1.80 | 1.00 |
Huffman | 1.21 | 0.18 | 1.63 | 1.00 |
Neural Net | 1.24 | 0.00 | 1.68 | 1.00 |
LU Decomposition | 1.27 | 0.01 | 1.86 | 1.00 |
Memory Index | 0.777 | 0.931 | 1.049 | 1.00 |
Integer Index | 1.077 | 0.792 | 1.451 | 1.00 |
Floating-Point Index | 1.009 | 0.004 | 1.400 | 1.00 |
TCP/IP Benchmarks
The following results were obtained netio 1.14. for the LS1, LS2 and netio 1.26 for the HG[3]
CPU | LS1 (PPC) | LS2 (MIPSel) | HG (PPC) | AMD (K6) |
Clock Speed | 200Mhz | 400Mhz | 266Mhz | 233Mhz |
Firmware | FreeLink 1.1 | OpenLink 0.52b | FreeLink 1.11 | Linux |
TCP/IP Tx - 1 KByte | 11,493 KByte/s | x | 12,366 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Tx - 2 KByte | 11,474 KByte/s | x | 14,020 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Tx - 4 KByte | 11,427 KByte/s | x | 19,510 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Tx - 8 KByte | 11,294 KByte/s | x | 19,629 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Tx - 16 KByte | 11,400 KByte/s | x | 20,259 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Tx - 32 KByte | 11,492 KByte/s | x | 21,342 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 1 KByte | 10,994 KByte/s | x | 3,961 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 2 KByte | 11,280 KByte/s | x | 5,676 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 4 KByte | 11,501 KByte/s | x | 6,362 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 8 KByte | 11,526 KByte/s | x | 7,169 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 16 KByte | 11,538 KByte/s | x | 13,416 KByte/s | N/A |
TCP/IP Rx - 32 KByte | 11,577 KByte/s | x | 15,707 KByte/s | N/A |
Disk Benchmarks
The following results were obtained using hdparm 6.1[4]
CPU | LS1 (PPC) | LS2 (MIPSel) | HG (PPC) | AMD (K6) |
Clock Speed | 200Mhz | 400Mhz | 266Mhz | 233Mhz |
Firmware | FreeLink 1.1 | OpenLink 0.52b | FreeLink 1.11 | Linux |
Cached Reads | 142.00 MB/sec | 117.43 MB/sec | 228.00 MB/sec | N/A |
Buffered Disk Reads | 30.67 MB/sec | 35.16 MB/sec | 43.71 MB/sec | N/A |
Bonnie++ I/O Speeds for Encrypted Drive on HG
Here is a speed comparision using Bonnie++[5] as a diagnostic tool. Fifilein is trying to use AES/DMCrypt and his numbers are in the speed comparision too[6] all numbers are from an HG-LS.
Sequential Output | Sequential Input | Random | Sequential Create | Random Create | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Per Chr | Block | Rewrite | Per Chr | Block | Seeks | Create | Read | Delete | Create | Read | Delete | |||||||||||||||
Size | K/sec | %CP | K/sec | %CP | K/sec | %CP | K/sec | %CP | K/sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | Files | /sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | /sec | %CP | |
FifNAS.XFS | 300M | 2142 | 99 | 27711 | 90 | 15149 | 63 | 2246 | 99 | 40324 | 53 | 208.8 | 4 | 16 | 290 | 22 | XXXXX | XXX | 279 | 18 | 294 | 22 | XXXXX | XXX | 163 | 10 |
FifNAS.ext3 | 300M | 1663 | 84 | 10052 | 80 | 11256 | 55 | 2222 | 98 | 22079 | 29 | 192.5 | 4 | 16 | 134 | 99 | XXXXX | XXX | 7785 | 95 | 135 | 99 | XXXXX | XXX | 492 | 97 |
Ramuk.ext3 | 300M | 1946 | 95 | 18425 | 85 | 14093 | 63 | 2166 | 98 | 37001 | 57 | 154.2 | 3 | 16 | 163 | 97 | XXXXX | XXX | 7736 | 97 | 165 | 97 | XXXXX | XXX | 850 | 96 |
FifNAS AES256.XFS | 300M | 1506 | 69 | 4292 | 13 | 2114 | 9 | 1483 | 65 | 4046 | 5 | 184.9 | 4 | 16 | 338 | 95 | XXXXX | XXX | 312 | 94 | 338 | 95 | XXXXX | XXX | 223 | 66 |
FifNAS AES256.ext3 | 300M | 1259 | 63 | 2699 | 20 | 1766 | 9 | 941 | 78 | 4021 | 4 | 168.4 | 4 | 16 | 132 | 98 | XXXXX | XXX | 6279 | 77 | 133 | 98 | XXXXX | XXX | 448 | 88 |
Ramuk encFS.ext3 | 300M | 1042 | 49 | 2088 | 5 | 1430 | 5 | 1388 | 63 | 3619 | 5 | 74.0 | 1 | 16 | 112 | 2 | 1311 | 9 | 704 | 8 | 112 | 2 | 1568 | 11 | 355 | 4 |
References
- ↑ PowerPC GCC 3.3.5, CFLAGS: -s -static -Wall -O3 -mcpu=603e -pipe -fsigned-char -funroll-loops - http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html
- ↑ MIPSel GCC 3.3.5, CLFAGS: -s -static -Wall -O3 -march=4kc -pipe -funroll-loops - http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html
- ↑ GCC 3.3.5, CFLAGS: -DUNIX -O2 - http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/
- ↑ Default Debian Sarge Flags - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
- ↑ Bonnie++ disk benchmark: http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
- ↑ The Linkstation Community Forum / Everything else / JBOD with ENCFS, Key on USB Stick