Re: disk throughput

2008-01-16 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:48:27PM +1300, Atom Smasher wrote: > i've got this running in one term: > systat -iostat 1 > and this in another term: > dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=123456 | md5 > > apparently the system only knows about throughput of mounted disks? It doesn't seem to kno

disk throughput

2008-01-16 Thread Atom Smasher
i've got this running in one term: systat -iostat 1 and this in another term: dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=123456 | md5 apparently the system only knows about throughput of mounted disks? is that a bug or a feature? -- ...atom http://atom.sm