RE: disk transfer rates

["Benton, Marco" <BENTONM polaroid com>]

i was just about to recomend Bonnie.  i use it on all my systems; DUNIX,
linux/intel, NetBSD/VAX, etc...

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-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Hilarius [mailto:maurice@harddata.com]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:44 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: disk transfer rates


With regards to your message at 12:34 PM 5/24/02, 
richard@nairnconsulting.ca. Where you stated:
>hdparm can be used to time disk reads:
>hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
>/dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.81 seconds = 35.36 MB/sec
>
>As for writes, you could maybe time a dd if=/dev/zero of=test...


Or grab a copy of bonnie++, and run it.
That is a good, and well recognized benchmark, with reliable and 
reproducible results.
And free..



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