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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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