Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:56:01 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.3, VIA, IDE, performace -> use bonnie |
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Jelle Foks wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Meelis Roos wrote: ... > > Now the interesting part: running hdparm -t /dev/hda again (and again ... Ooops.. somebody probably used "-T" instead of "-t" that time.. .. > Though probably even bonnie can be improved, it's much better than hdparm > for quick tests.
But they measure different things. Apples and Oranges.
Bonnie measures *system* I/O performance. hdparm measures sequential sustainable disk data transfer rates. -- mlord@pobox.com
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