From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 24 18:02:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10083 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:02:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10078 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA06415; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:02:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:02:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: Christoph Kukulies cc: Robert Schien , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory speed of P6-200 (256k) In-Reply-To: <199702241909.UAA01301@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I found: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=2000 > > 2097152000 bytes transferred in 27.298230 secs (76823735 bytes/sec) > > The motherboard is a P6NP5 (Natoma chipset) with 64 MB EDO-RAM. > > The kernel is 3.0-current. > > This is from my P6NP5: > > bach> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=2000 > 2000+0 records in > 2000+0 records out > 2097152000 bytes transferred in 25.741665 secs (81469167 bytes/sec) While we're at it, here are the results fom my Intel 440FX(Natoma) P6-200 machine, running 2.1.5: mark:{27}/home/mark % dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=2000 2000+0 records in 2000+0 records out 2097152000 bytes transferred in 24 secs (87381333 bytes/sec) My first generation PPro 150 from Digital only musters ~60MB/s.. -Mark > > > > > Is this value normal for a P6-200? > > If not, how can I speed it up? > > > > TIA > > Robert > > > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. -- Arthur Schopenhauer