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From: pb@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Peter Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Simple disk benchmark results
Message-ID: <450@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 22 Jun 89 08:23:40 GMT
References: <9468@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <9472@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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In article <9472@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>Test results from*:
>>
>>/bin/time dd if=/dev/disk_block_device  of=/dev/null bs=4k count=2000
>>
>
>I should have made it clear that the Kbytes/sec results were based on
>realtime and hence I am only interested in results from unloaded systems.
>True, other data would be meaningless.

Why not use /dev/raw_disk_device as well to exclude the cache buffering
in the system?




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