Re: count(*) performance

Luke Lonergan wrote:

> To test your disk speed, use the following commands and report the times
> here:
>
>   time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=500000 && sync"

root@panther:/fast #   time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k
count=500000 && sync"
500000+0 records in
500000+0 records out
4096000000 bytes transferred in 45.469404 seconds (90082553 bytes/sec)
real    0m56.880s
user    0m0.112s
sys     0m18.937s

>   time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k

root@panther:/fast #   time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k
500000+0 records in
500000+0 records out
4096000000 bytes transferred in 53.542147 seconds (76500481 bytes/sec)

real    0m53.544s
user    0m0.048s
sys     0m10.637s

I guess these values aren't that bad :)

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