Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:46:40 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> "fio" does well: >> >> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=summary > > Neat tool, Jens... > > >> and I think it comes with a few example files. Here's the random write >> file that Jens suggested, and that works pretty well.. >> >> It first creates a 2GB file to do the IO on, then does random 4k >> writes to it with O_DIRECT. >> >> If your SSD does badly at it, you'll just want to kill it, but it >> shows you how many MB/s it's doing (or, in the sucky case, how many >> kB/s). > > > heh, so far, the SSD is poking along... > > Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w] [2.5% done] [ 0/ 282 kb/s] [eta 02h:24m:59s] ..
Try turning on the drive write cache? hdparm -W1
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