TomC!E! BodE>C!r wrote: > There must be some funny tricks on those other OS's.But it doesn't > matter (I will investigate myself). > Now I know more about those random generators and tests for "real" are ok. > Untar of src.tar.gz shows about 9MB/s in iostat(8) and dd ports.tar.gz > to some file > shows about 22MB/s. > > Thanks all for their tips and sorry for some of my stupid ideas ;-)
Also, untarring lots of small files wont test your I/O in the same way as a dd(1) test, since it will test "how often can I make atomic writes to my disk" rather than "how much data can I move".
