Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

[James Manning]

[ Wednesday, March  1, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, James Manning wrote:
> > per-char doesn't matter (one of the reasons I hate ppl using bonnie,
> > besides the single-threaded-ness). Considering the queueing and scat/gat
> 
> Why not? Because usual disk operations are done block by block?

that and because per-char stresses the OS and stdio implementation far
more than drive itself.... there was a little rant about it awhile back
on lkml or here

James