Re: Poor disk drive performance with FC3 RC3

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:51:04PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > # hdparm -t /dev/hda
> don't use hdparm!
> 
> it's very unreliable for measuring performance; please use something
> like tiobench (tiobench.sf.net) 

Its not that unreliable for measuring streaming I/O. Those numbers match 
other reports I've seen from the old magicdev crap when there was a cdrom
as the slave and it polled