OK, so use a real io test program or at least pre-generate files large enough to exceed RAM caching?
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > >> Is urandom nonblocking? > > The OS provided random devices need to be secure and so they depend on > collecting "entropy" from the system so the random values are truely random. > They also execute complex code to produce the random numbers. As a result, > both of the random device interfaces are much slower than a disk drive. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
