> use filebench, it has a cifs plugin I think Or iozone, or any other benchmarking utility, which, behind the scenes, will write to disk and measure the throughput of each one, exactly like dd does, except the benchmarking tools will repeat and change parameters such as block size and filesize on each subsequent test.
Point is: don't dismiss the dd results. Any other benchmarking tool does the same thing in a more elaborate form. If dd models the behavior he expects to use, then dd measures the performance he cares about. Additional information coming from a different benchmark tool is nice, but that's not to say the present information is unimportant or invalid. > Also, you might want to ask cifs related questions in cifs-discuss This is not a purely cifs discussion, and although he might get more results asking in different places too, this group is a perfectly acceptable place to have this discussion. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
