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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: A performance mystery
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> Okay, try a memory bandwidth benchmark to see if we have something there
> that is grossly different.  A quick and easy bcopy test is to run iozone
> that does not remove the temp file on a 1/4 memory size file repeatedly,
> that should hit the buffer cache totatally and give us ~ bcopy rates.

The ram-speed test posted here a couple of weeks ago gives:

Micon: 10mb/20mb
Compaq: 10mb/7mb

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/