Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Anderson
On 09/26/06 10:46, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: I am reading Richard Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment," a most excellent book. Out of curiosity, I tried his I/O efficiency program on my IBM A30 Thinkpad, running 6.0-RELEASE with default tuning parameters. The test program reads

Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > 1993 2006 > - > (1) /dev/null write 0.3s .005s <-- read speed If you mean to say that 1.5 MB have been read in 0.005s, then that's certainly _not_ the read speed of your disk drive. No single drive