Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:47:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: chuckr@eng.umd.edu, se@zpr.uni-koeln.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VLB Disk Controllers Message-ID: <199510100147.LAA32670@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>OK, I've been watching the posted results, many have as little variance >as yours, but many (where multiple runs were shown) had the huge variance >mine had. Would like to know why my checks to /dev/sd0 are all over the >board, when checks to rsd0 are fairly stable at 1180-1190. Testing /dev/sd0 tests the buffer cache and shouldn't go anywhere near the driver or the drive. There may be more variance because running the program (not to mention other processes) disturbs the buffer cache. /dev/sd0 is about twice as slow as /dev/zero here, but the "command" overhead is about twice as small for /dev/sd0. Bruce
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