Simple disk benchmark results

[Peter Brouwer]

In article <9472 at b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff at b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>Test results from*:
>>
>>/bin/time dd if=/dev/disk_block_device  of=/dev/null bs=4k count=2000
>>
>
>I should have made it clear that the Kbytes/sec results were based on
>realtime and hence I am only interested in results from unloaded systems.
>True, other data would be meaningless.

Why not use /dev/raw_disk_device as well to exclude the cache buffering
in the system?




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