I have the standard mac mini m2 pro (10-core cpu, 512gb ssd, 16GB ram). I also have a mac studio m1 max (not ultra!) 32gb ram, upped to 1TB ssd. both run macos 13.2.1. I then brew install sysbench and
sysbench fileio --file-total-size=15G --file-test-mode=rndrw --time=300 --max-requests=0 run
sysbench fileio --file-total-size=15G --file-test-mode=rndrw --time=300 --max-requests=0 cleanup
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
the mini does
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 120MiB each
15GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Number of IO requests: 0
Read/Write ratio for combined random IO test: 1.50
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing random r/w test
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
File operations:
reads/s: 8668.41
writes/s: 5778.94
fsyncs/s: 18492.97
Throughput:
read, MiB/s: 135.44
written, MiB/s: 90.30
General statistics:
total time: 300.0003s
total number of events: 9881989
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.03
max: 20.48
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 299269.99
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 9881989.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 299.2700/0.00
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
the studio does
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 120MiB each
15GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Number of IO requests: 0
Read/Write ratio for combined random IO test: 1.50
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing random r/w test
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
File operations:
reads/s: 62863.67
writes/s: 41909.11
fsyncs/s: 134109.31
Throughput:
read, MiB/s: 982.24
written, MiB/s: 654.83
General statistics:
total time: 300.0010s
total number of events: 71664796
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 8.05
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 294415.57
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 71664796.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 294.4156/0.00
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
Do I have something misconfigured on the m2 mini here? The studio pro has read throughput about 6-8 times faster than the mini. I have heard that the base mini m2 was slower, but this slow??