Adam Jensen [han...@riseup.net] wrote: > > In an attempt to understand the problem, I ran a similar set of tests on an > i386 machine. While the file-system characteristics of OpenBSD and FreeBSD > are different, I can comfortably assume that, in this case (i386), they are > both utilizing the underlying hardware effectively. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > dd file-system characterization > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ### OpenBSD-5.4 i386 > > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1k count=524288 > 536870912 bytes transferred in 4.412 secs (121674708 bytes/sec) > > ### FreeBSD-9.2 i386 > > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1k count=524288 > 536870912 bytes transferred in 5.128465 secs (104684524 bytes/sec) >
What if you try larger block sizes? like bs=1m ?
