From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 6:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EF715251 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 120mYU-000IIM-00; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:15:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA73320; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:15:53 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:15:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Kent Stewart Cc: Dale Hagglund , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when is it safe to use the 0xa0ffa0ff disk flags? In-Reply-To: <385FDCE7.3857622B@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: >> On 21 Dec 1999, Dale Hagglund wrote: >> >them during boot up, and then rebuilding the kernel. I went from >> >about 4.1 MB/s for both reads and writes to 12.3 MB/s for reads and >> >9.8 MB/s for writes. > >When I used iozone, I used "iozone -s 160m" to create 160MB files. You >can set the file size to what ever you want as long as it is more than >your memory. What iozone does show you how it handles various size >reads and writes to get to the specified file size. I think it also >throws some random I/O in as well. Well, i tried this on my laptop, and the best i got was about 4.7 megs/sec. Can i expect to do any better on my Toshiba ? I don't know my rpm rating, but i brought it to work so i can get bios specs. It's running EIDE, AFAIK. -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message