Benchmark tools are useful to provide some “standard” performance indexes for storage systems with specific requirements. This chapter shows how to identify the access pattern of benchmark results. The first tool is SPC-1C from the Storage Performance Council (SPC). After capturing the pattern, I developed a synthetic emulator to match the real traces. The second tool is PCMark from FutureMark. I illustrate how to use gain-loss analysis to improve cache algorithm efficiency.
Storage performance benchmarks assess the relative performance of storage systems by running a ...
