Martin Nilsson wrote this message on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 22:03 +0200: > Doug White wrote / skrev: > > > >I'd also suggest using a tool like iozone to run your tests instead of dd. > >Unless your workload consists of entirely sequential writes this perf test > >is worthless. > > What is wrong with using dd to measure max read/write bandwith of the > controller-disk system? It's not just measuring the bandwidth of the disk system, since it also must read from somewhere first.. So all of your numbers read x bytes from /dev/zero (or else where) and writes x bytes to disk, or read x bytes from disk and writes x bytes to /dev/zero... It is much more optimial to skip the read/write to /dev/zero, and programs like bonnie do this... (Though the cost of modern read/write from/to /dev/zero, it is still measurable.) -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 20:02:26 UTC
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