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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:15:53 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Dale Hagglund <rdh@best.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: when is it safe to use the 0xa0ffa0ff disk flags?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912221413240.61699-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <385FDCE7.3857622B@3-cities.com>

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote:
>> On 21 Dec 1999, Dale Hagglund wrote:
>> >them during boot up, and then rebuilding the kernel.  I went from
>> >about 4.1 MB/s for both reads and writes to 12.3 MB/s for reads and
>> >9.8 MB/s for writes.
>
>When I used iozone, I used "iozone -s 160m" to create 160MB files. You
>can set the file size to what ever you want as long as it is more than
>your memory. What iozone does show you how it handles various size
>reads and writes to get to the specified file size. I think it also
>throws some random I/O in as well.

Well, i tried this on my laptop, and the best i got was about 4.7
megs/sec.  Can i expect to do any better on my Toshiba ?  I don't
know my rpm rating, but i brought it to work so i can get bios
specs.  It's running EIDE, AFAIK.


-jm





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