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By John Bass
Network World, 08/06/01

1. Random transaction type, write only, 1K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.97 9.96 9.43
100 987.68 987.35 936.01
200 1946.05 1952.84 1813.28
300 2733.67 2840.91 2538.01
400 3103.2 3067.44 2821.53
500 3320.48 3359.06 1888.03
600 3617.08 3759.56 683.97
700 2803.29 2795.09 343.32
800 2324.74 2327.41 342.06
900 2090 2088.79 342.51
1000 1902.59 1894.01 341.71
TPS=Transactions per second.

2. Sequential transaction type, read only, 8K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.96 9.96 9.81
100 987.05 985.65 944.93
200 1950.59 1949.03 1811.56
300 2850.85 2826.73 2508.3
400 3546.88 3569.41 2874.28
500 3724.09 3844.12 2828.86
600 3742.4 3788.86 2523.72
700 2608.4 2608.05 2483.22
800 2258.92 2265.43 2457.47
900 2024.53 2018.92 2425.44
1000 1831.5 1841.65 2274.76
TPS=Transactions per second.

3. Sequential transaction type, read only, 1K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.95 9.95 9.74
100 986.44 986.23 922.16
200 1945.9 1947.28 1687.8
300 2842.46 2845.19 2141.85
400 3562.13 3577.21 2275.15
500 3687.6 3769.36 2193.67
600 3785.92 3796.14 2038.78
700 2640.48 2618.56 2008.51
800 2269.33 2257.74 1982.7
900 2028.09 2022.66 1935.85
1000 1842.97 1846.8 1853.67
TPS=Transactions per second.

4. Random transaction type, read only, 1K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.97 9.97 9.88
100 987.56 987.08 966.23
200 1960.3 1951.47 1876.79
300 2890.44 2869.43 2772.55
400 3729.46 3739.19 3415.91
500 4339.13 4346.45 3720.51
600 4266.73 4237.69 3140.12
700 2753.36 2680.06 3126.51
800 2274.43 2270.05 3095.27
900 2037.62 2028.56 2949
1000 1847.76 1854.21 2831.25
TPS=Transactions per second.

5. Random transaction type, read only, 8K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.97 9.96 9.64
100 987.28 898.06 965.18
200 1956.65 1877.13 1877.61
300 2879.81 2826.62 2739.78
400 3706.34 3656.55 3357.97
500 4183.23 4241.46 3447.27
600 4117.73 4071.29 2982.64
700 2711.45 2605.06 2952.09
800 2264.45 2277.55 2927.12
900 2027.09 2029.14 2822.82
1000 1837.69 1847.19 2716.96
TPS=Transactions per second.

6. Sequential transaction type, write only, 8K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.84 9.73 9.76
40 380.69 340.14 380.63
80 712.02 722.68 741.66
120 927.73 860.31 1106.28
160 933.07 873.63 1452.69
200 859.34 815.41 1773.37
240 792.01 797.46 2125.12
280 759.79 768.06 2298.24
320 699.32 730.75 961.28
360 655.35 749.3 520.58
400 632.85 730.31 420.73
TPS=Transactions per second.

7. Sequential transaction type, write only, 1K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.81 9.66 9.81
40 374.74 303.69 312.31
80 627.95 612.44 587.31
120 678.45 680.47 836.9
160 640.06 665.82 1078.5
200 603.32 629.2 1327.17
240 568.09 622.77 1586.51
280 538.17 615.34 1796.83
320 503.64 614.52 2041.05
360 465.61 608.42 2201.44
400 446.65 606.97 2268.89
TPS=Transactions per second.

8. Random transaction type, write only, 8K byte block
User load Windows NT 4.0
TPS		 Windows 2000
TPS		 NetWare
TPS
1 9.58 9.58 9.6
40 369.58 345.25 377.74
80 668.14 635.23 739.72
120 671.29 744 1081.65
160 507.55 727.2 1431.72
200 378.36 697.39 1613.05
240 294.5 652.22 1640.19
280 268.03 628.18 1633.31
320 400.46 592.33 1607.89
360 379.89 577.37 1593.14
400 350.29 535.46 1580.29
TPS=Transactions per second.

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Bass, a senior technical staff member at CNL and co-author of McGraw Hill's Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks, designs and leads the execution of the test suites. He can be reached at john_bass@ncsu.edu.


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