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
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