Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

2010-12-25 Thread Ingo
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 f

Re: Why are disk writes so slow?

2010-12-25 Thread Ingo
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 f