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From: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Sparcstation 2 Write I/O
Message-ID: <155@edi386.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 12:33:56 GMT
References: <152@edi386.UUCP> <1991Feb16.145828.12539@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Organization: J.M. Huber Corp., Edison,NJ
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In article <1991Feb16.145828.12539@maths.tcd.ie> ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) writes:
-In <152@edi386.UUCP> eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi ) writes:
->I've found an anomaly I can't explain on my borrowed Sparcstation 2.
->I've been running the Byte Magazine Benchmarks and the file I/O times
->were surprisingly low, around 270 kb / sec. on read and writes.
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-Just for reference, I tried using dd with a bs=1024k (big) to create and read
-100Mb files.  Machine was a plain SS2, with a Hitachi 1.2Gb disk.
-
-I got about 1.5 Mb/s writing, and 2.1Mb/s reading.

I've also gotten similar results  dd and mkfile. Unfortunately all of my
programs use the write system call, and it only does about 270 kb on
a quiet system, using SunOs 4.1.1. My 386 does about half as good, and
my RS/6000 gets about 3 MB on the writes on a quiet system...

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