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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:48:52 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.1RC read/write speeds ... 
Message-ID:  <200007251948.MAA31740@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:10:43 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251600460.3502-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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> 
> Does this look right for a Dual-PIII, no load other then the operating
> system, idle disk *only* being used for the tests ... just seems low to
> me:
> 
> 
> Writing the 232 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'...14.273438 seconds
> Reading the file...3.328125 seconds
> 
> IOZONE performance measurements:
>         17043521 bytes/second for writing the file
>         73095100 bytes/second for reading the file

The test is meaningless; you probably have a good portion of the 232MB 
file in the buffer cache.  17MB/sec is far too fast for one of these 
lame-duck WD SCSI disks, let alone 73MB/sec.

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rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
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