Re: Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eee PC diskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-02 Thread Craig Falconer
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 17:19: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec) However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec) time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=8k count=64k sda

Re: Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eee PC diskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:19:22 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: Well this is bizarre time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k produces a 256 MB file. onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)

Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eee PC diskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: Well this is bizarre time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k produces a 256 MB file. onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec) However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec) So you might be onto something here. time dd