Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:21:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug? |
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> 20 Oca 2007 Cts 22:10 tarihinde, Tim Schmielau şunları yazmıştı: > > > > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data=20 > > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening=20 > > data, try > > > > time dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/1GB bs=3D1M count=3D1024; time sync ^^^^ > > > > The dd returns as soon as all data could be buffered in RAM. Only sync=20 > > will show how long it takes to actually write out the data to disk. > > also explains why you see better results is writeout starts earlier. > > Still not that bad: > > [~]> time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024;sync > 1024+0 records in > 1024+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 53,3194 s, 20,1 MB/s > > real 0m53.517s > user 0m0.003s > sys 0m3.193s >
That's not the point, you still measured the same as before (but you might have noticed that, after printing the results, the shell prompt took some time to appear). I appended "time sync" to the command to show that (depending on the amount of available memory) actually most of the time is spent in the "sync", not the "dd".
Tim | |