tly some work on disk schedulers (even a Summer of Code
project), but it will most likely not make it into 5.x.
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egin? ;-)
This has been proposed before and has been (to my knowledge) universally
accepted as a Good Idea. If you have the interest and time to devote to
it, I would urge you to work on it. The benefit to the community would
be huge.
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usr/bin/time -h dd of=/dev/null if=/usr/testfile bs=64k count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
655360 bytes transferred in 102.288822 secs (64069562 bytes/sec)
1m42.29s real 0.20s user 1m4.52s sys
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transferred in 32.028544 secs (204617482 bytes/sec)
32.02s real 0.02s user 2.73s sys
Look at the difference in sys times for raw vs. filesystem reads. With
raw we're at 2.73s while reading from the filesystem requires 12.33s!
From my position of complete ignorance tha
f=/usr/testfile of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10
Read: 152Mb/s
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