Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:14:56 +0200 | From | Markus <> |
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I already pointed this out :-). Its not only write caching (dev null doesnt write at all) I think its read caching (read ahead)
Cheers Markus
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, blizbor wrote: > > >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: > >> > >> The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. > >> Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s. > > > >Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ? > > > >In context you wrote, I've got rather curious results (maybe due to > >daulty measurement routines in tar). > >I've made > >tar clvf /dev/null --totals > >and got as follows: > > > >for ReiserFS: 53MB/s > >for ext2fs 27-28 MB/s > > 2 words: write caching > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open source advocate > Computer Consultant - Capslock Consulting > Copyright 2000 all rights reserved > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > #[Mike A. Harris bash tip #3 - how to disable core dumps] > # Put the following at the bottom of your ~/.bash_profile > ulimit -c 0 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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