Benchmark using dbench (ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README)

Hardware: Duron 700 mhz, Ram 128 or 256 MB, ATA66 IDE drive 20 GB
	  The test partition is /dev/hda10, 3.6 GB, mounted on /testfs

Software: Slackware 8.0, kernel is stock 2.4.16 
          e2fsprogs 1.25, mkreiserfs 3.x.0j

Configuration: hdparm -d1 -c1 -m8 -u1 /dev/hda

During the bench, nothing else is running except syslogd, klogd, inetd, atd
and the kernel :).


Command: 
	 # mount /dev/hda10 /testfs; cd /testfs
	 # dbench -c ~/client.txt NP; cd; umount /testfs

	 with NP = 5, 20 and 42 (numbers of clients)
	 
Each test runs three times, and we take the median value. Higher values are
better. 


1. Ram 256 MB

			 Throughput MB/sec   

Filesystem     |   5 procs   |   20 procs   |  42 procs 
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext3 ordered   |   40.9588   |   26.7655    |  18.7971
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext3 writeback |   67.6968   |   36.0887    |  22.1367
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
reiserfs       |   64.5322   |   39.3803    |  26.1244
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext2           |   89.3891   |   45.7070    |  27.5314 
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------



2. Ram 128 MB

			 Throughput MB/sec   

Filesystem     |   5 procs   |   20 procs   |  42 procs 
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext3 ordered   |   38.6437   |   17.4603    |   9.7327
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext3 writeback |   52.5312   |   22.6350    |   8.9243
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
reiserfs       |   51.6706   |   27.1540    |  11.9484
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------
Ext2           |   60.7879   |   25.7791    |   9.9762
---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------