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From: mika ruohotie <bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: Pentium II-266Mhz
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970525164111.21528x-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> from Brian Tao at "May 25, 97 04:42:50 pm"
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> > 8:13pm crh> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
> > 1000+0 records in
> > 1000+0 records out
> > 1048576000 bytes transferred in 9.969560 secs (105177762 bytes/sec)
> > 
> > 8:14pm crh> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128k count=8000
> > 8000+0 records in
> > 8000+0 records out
> > 1048576000 bytes transferred in 4.389535 secs (238880886 bytes/sec)

pluto# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 8.786672 secs (119337105 bytes/sec)
pluto# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128k count=8000
8000+0 records in
8000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 8.661279 secs (121064798 bytes/sec)

just a thought here... which motherboard you used?

my test is gigabyte ga586hx512, and as far as i see this, the board/chipset
is faster in pci performance, but ofcourse, coz of external l2, it's slower
in that...


mickey