Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

You guys are making this harder than it needs to be. Try this: sync# To make sure nothing else is writing dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=1024 oflag=dsync You'll get reasonable numbers this way out of dd. -J On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:43:04PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > What you want

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:14:55PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? > > > > > > The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after > > > resume or reboot. > > > > Afte

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:03:20PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > > > > > Y