The Volano Report

The latest Volano test results are published in the Volano Report.

The Volano Report (HTML)
The report is also available in the following formats:
- Letter paper Adobe PDF file
- A4 paper Adobe PDF file
- Plain text file

For the results of earlier tests performed by Volano, please see the following older copies of the Volano Report:

Background

For information about the VolanoMark™ benchmark and its history, please see the following articles in JavaWorld Magazine:

VolanoMark 2.1: October 1999 - "The need for speed, stability," by Scott Plamondon, JavaWorld Magazine
VolanoMark 2.1: March 1999 - "The Volano Report: Which Java platform is fastest, most scalable?" by John Neffenger, JavaWorld Magazine
VolanoMark 2.0: August 1998 - "Which Java VM scales best?" by John Neffenger, JavaWorld Magazine
VolanoMark 1.0: December 1997 - "Results of first-ever JVM server benchmark revealed," by John Neffenger, JavaWorld Magazine

Publishing Rules

If you are a Java vendor or author of a Java virtual machine and wish to publish your VolanoMark test results, make sure to include the following information:

Identify Volano and the VolanoMark version number. For example:
- VolanoMark™ version 2.5 from Volano
Document the commands and options used to run the tests. For example:
- java -server -Xconcurrentio -Xmx256m -Xss64k
Identify the Java virtual machine used to run the tests. For example:
- java version "1.3.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS) Classic VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS, green threads, nojit)
Identify the operating system and version used to run the tests. For example:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 3
- Red Hat Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18, glibc 2.3.2)
Identify the hardware used to run the tests. For example:
- a 500-MHz Intel Pentium III processor with 256 megabytes of memory

Download

To run your own tests, download the VolanoMark installation program from the following link:

HTTP: http://www.volano.com/pub/vmark2_5_0_9.class - 1,591,590 bytes

To start the installation program, change to the directory where you saved the installation program and enter one of the following commands, substituting java with the name of the Java interpreter on your system.

java vmark2_5_0_9: when connected with a graphical window environment.
java vmark2_5_0_9 -o directory: when connected with a character-based environment, where directory is the name of the directory where you want VolanoMark to be installed.

To compare your test results with ours, make sure to pay close attention to the run rules and operating environments in The Volano Report. Modify the following scripts provided with VolanoMark to run the tests on your network:

loopserver.sh: to start the server side of the loopback performance test
loopclient.sh: to start the client side of the loopback performance test
netserver.sh: to start the server side of the network scalability test
netclient.sh: to start the client side of the network scalability test
startup.sh: the main script called by the others

In particular, make sure to change the target host name at the top of the startup.sh file so that it points to the machine running the VolanoMark server on your network:

# Name of the host running the server side of the network test.
host=gx1p.test.volano.com

If the Java virtual machines installed on your system are in different locations than on our test machines, you may need to make other modifications to the shell scripts. Notice that the scripts require the Cygwin Bash Shell to run on Windows.