bonnie++ -- anything Splunk Specific?

[tim_snider]

Maybe I'm confused - but I don't think so in this case. I'm familiar with benchmarking both file system and disk (raw device) performance in Linux and Windoze. bonnie measures file system performance of a server - Splunk indexer (or other components) don't "HAVE" to be loaded on the node to test file system performance. I assume Splunk wanted consistent reporting so they could've chosen any other file system benchmark - iozone, vdbench, iometer... They settled on bonnie++ which is fine. I wanted to be sure that there was something Splunk specific in running bonnie++ without Splunk being loaded on a node that would be used as an indexer.
Thx.

[phoffman_splunk · Accepted solution]

I am not sure I understand your question. Splunk has referenced using bonnie++ to gauge IOps performance so you can get a grasp of how well your splunk servers will perform (mainly discussed when referring to indexing performance).

If that is what you are referencing; When getting a measure of IOps you do not need splunk installed to eval your disk read/write performance.

http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:HardwareTuningFactors

[tim_snider]

That's fine -- thanks for the response -- I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious.
Tim