Hi Eric,

On 10/10/07 12:50 AM, "eric kustarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Since you were already using filebench, you could use the
> 'singlestreamwrite.f' and 'singlestreamread.f' workloads (with
> nthreads set to 20, iosize set to 128k) to achieve the same things.

Yes but once again we see the utility of the "zero software needed" approach
to benchmarking!  The "dd test" rules for general audience on the mailing
lists IMO.

The other goodness aspect of the dd test is that the results are
indisputable because dd is baked into the OS.

That all said - we don't have a simple dd benchmark for random seeking.

> With the latest version of filebench, you can then use the '-c'
> option to compare your results in a nice HTML friendly way.

That's worth the effort.

- Luke


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