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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 1996 18:22:13 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        rashid@rk.ios.com, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk perf. with different HDs/Adapt.
Message-ID:  <199602240722.SAA23535@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>} 	For example
>} 	(command is: dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null count=200 bs=64k)
>} 
>} 	P166/ASUS/Aha2940(not wide,Seagate):
>} 	13107200 bytes transferred in 2 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)


>If you report 'dd' numbers, then **please** add at least 'time' info ...
>E.g.:

># time dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null count=200 bs=64k
>13107200 bytes transferred in 2 secs (6553600 bytes/sec)
>        1.92 real         0.01 user         0.05 sys

>...

>Those 1.92 seconds make for exactly 6826667 Bytes per second ...
>And the 7.43 give some 6962656 Bytes/s.

>(Yes, I know, the results aren't exact to more than 2 decimals 
>due to the limited time resolution ...)

Someone should fix dd to use the available resolution of 4-6 decimal
places.  I suppose the output of `time' is too standard to change.

Bruce



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