Luke Lonergan wrote:
To test your disk speed, use the following commands and report the times here: time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=500000 && sync"
root@panther:/fast # time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=500000 && sync" 500000+0 records in 500000+0 records out 4096000000 bytes transferred in 45.469404 seconds (90082553 bytes/sec) real 0m56.880s user 0m0.112s sys 0m18.937s
time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k
root@panther:/fast # time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k 500000+0 records in 500000+0 records out 4096000000 bytes transferred in 53.542147 seconds (76500481 bytes/sec) real 0m53.544s user 0m0.048s sys 0m10.637s I guess these values aren't that bad :) -- Üdvözlettel, Gábriel Ákos -=E-Mail :akos.gabriel@xxxxxxxxxx|Web: http://www.i-logic.hu=- -=Tel/fax:+3612367353 |Mobil:+36209278894 =-