[rrd-developers] rrdupates per second

[Bernard Li]

Hi all:

In the "Features for RRDtool 1.3" wiki page
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/RRDtool13, it mentioned:

"My CoreDuo Thinkpad was able to do 12k updates per second (in memory)
with the 1.2 code base. With the 1.3 code base it is able to do 22k
updates per second (in memory)."

and

"My 5400 RPM Thinkpad HD continues to run at about 250 RRD updates per second."

Is there a standard way of measuring this?  Or do you simply time how
long it takes to run n updates?

Thanks,

Bernard