Re: test9 not using buffers

2000-10-12 Thread Thorsten Kranzkowski
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:04:07PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Tom Holroyd wrote: > > > Alpha DP264 (UP), SCSI, floppy > > > > If I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/moo count=10, I don't see any > > increase in buffers, as reported by vmstat. Furthermore, if I read from

Re: test9 not using buffers

2000-10-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Tom Holroyd wrote: > Alpha DP264 (UP), SCSI, floppy > > If I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/moo count=10, I don't see any > increase in buffers, as reported by vmstat. Furthermore, if I read from > /dev/fd0, it used to buffer the whole thing, so a second read would be >

test9 not using buffers

2000-10-11 Thread Tom Holroyd
Alpha DP264 (UP), SCSI, floppy If I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/moo count=10, I don't see any increase in buffers, as reported by vmstat. Furthermore, if I read from /dev/fd0, it used to buffer the whole thing, so a second read would be fast -- now it hits the floppy again. I ran some fair