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From: mika ruohotie <bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: speed test
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970814114229.1580M-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> from Stephen Roome at "Aug 14, 97 12:12:55 pm"
To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 00:56:11 +0300 (EET DST)
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> 1) whats the blocksize got to do with the number..
>    i.e. if you use smaller blocksize does it not go through main
>         memory and only touch cache ?

128k should do that. but i got fasterspeeds with 1m

> 3) I've seen stuff on these lists implying that xxx000000 bytes/second
> counts as xxxMB/s. It's almost like we're selling hard drives, advertising
> size or speed in terms of decimal MB instead of real MB.

guilty as charged. :|

i'll sulk for a day and turn one machine from windows to freebsd... :p

(not my machine since i already run just freebsd)


mickey