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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29
    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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