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From: ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Sparcstation 2 Write I/O
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.145828.12539@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 16 Feb 91 14:58:28 GMT
References: <152@edi386.UUCP>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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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.

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.
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