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Subject: Helios LanTest 2.5.0 - File Server Performance Evaluation Tool
Helios LanTest is an utility designed to test file server performance in a
Macintosh environment. It tests the following operations:
* Creating 100 files of 20KB each
* Opening and closing 100 files.
* Remove 100 files.
* Write 3 MB to a file.
* Read 3 MB from a file.
* Lock and unlock 4000 records.
* Read a directory containing 320 entries.
* Print a 3 MB PostScript file to the selected printer.
For faster networks (e.g. 100baseT) the size of the 3 MB file can be
increased to 30MB. LanTest 2.5.0 adds an option for very fast networks
(e.g. Gigabit EThernet) to increase the file size to 300MB.
The utility can perform a mixture of these tests using a given number
of times and display the timings as well as an average. All results are
written into an ASCII logfile as well. The utility will count the
number of concurrently running LanTest applications from the same
settings document.
As all benchmarks, the results must be interpreted carefully and all
test parameters should be documented together with the results.
Changes since version 2.0.1:
* Added an option for very fast networks to increase the test file size
to 300MB.