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Subject: Re: pitiful performance of an SATA150 drive
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Hello!

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Let's not get distracted. dd using bs=1m is still limited to 7Mb/s on writing.

   BTW, what CPU utilization numbers does "systat -vm" show during the writing?
In other words, is this issue (slow writing) CPU-bounded or device-bounded?

Sincerely, Dmitry
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