From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 11:59:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1476116A41A for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom@smasher.org) Received: from atom.smasher.org (atom.smasher.org [69.55.237.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCDB313C461 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom@smasher.org) Received: (qmail 55749 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jan 2008 09:48:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20080116094829.55748.qmail@smasher.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:48:27 +1300 (NZDT) From: Atom Smasher MIME-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=0xB88D52E4D9F57808; algo=1 (RSA); size=4096; url=http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-POM: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (57% of Full) X-Hashcash: 1:20:0801160948:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org::2Dkp2iZYMplr/AHc:000000 0000000000000000000000003hKJ Subject: disk throughput X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:15 -0000 i've got this running in one term: systat -iostat 1 and this in another term: dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=123456 | md5 apparently the system only knows about throughput of mounted disks? is that a bug or a feature? -- ...atom ________________________ http://atom.smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808 ------------------------------------------------- "Only sick music makes money today." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner, 1888