On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 10:59, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:19:52AM -0400, Jeff Trout wrote: > >Bonnie++ is able to use very large datasets. It also tries to figure > >out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is limited to 2GB. > > Yes, and once you get into large datasets like that the quality of the > data is fairly poor because the program can't really eliminate cache > effects. IOW, it tries but (in my experience) doesn't succeed very well. I have often used the mem=xxx arguments to lilo when needing to limit the amount of memory for testing purposes. Just google for limit memory and your bootloader to find the options.
