On 12/12/08, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:25:18AM -0700, Eric D. Mudama wrote: >> Oops, I guess I assumed that by writing a few gigabytes of data it >> wouldn't matter that much. I'll run the test again in a bit once I'm >> off this solaris machine. > > You need to rescale for 2008; people often have 4GB or more RAM in their > machines ... hell, I have one machine here from 2002 with 14GB in it > (I don't power it up very often because it's too noisy). The test was > only writing 1GB of data, which would fit in the page cache of my laptop, > never mind the kind of machine that's likely to have an 8-way array > attached to it. I just retested on a linux box at work, and got 79 MB/s on both the X18-M and X25-M, and 197MB/s on an X25-E. All were done with bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct. --eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
