Alan,
Unless noted otherwise all results posted are for block device readahead set
to 16M using "blockdev --setra=16384 <block_device>". All are using the
2.6.9-11 Centos 4.1 kernel.
For those who don't have lmdd, here is a comparison of two results on an
ext2 filesystem:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] dbfast1]# time bash -c "(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dbfast1/bigfile
bs=8k count=800000 && sync)"
800000+0 records in
800000+0 records out
real 0m33.057s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m13.577s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dbfast1]# time lmdd if=/dev/zero of=/dbfast1/bigfile bs=8k
count=800000 sync=1
6553.6000 MB in 31.2957 secs, 209.4092 MB/sec
real 0m33.032s
user 0m0.087s
sys 0m13.129s
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So lmdd with sync=1 is apparently equivalent to a sync after a dd.
I use 2x memory with dd for the *READ* performance testing, but let's make
sure things are synced on both sides for this set of comparisons.
First, let's test ext2 versus "ext3, data=ordered", versus reiserfs versus
xfs:
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