*BSD News Article 29297


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!nadia.stgt.sub.org!delos.stgt.sub.org!luva!migieger
From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: iozone results
References: <2no7ih$qq5@tut.msstate.edu> <2nog3l$hqh@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 20:29:58 GMT
Message-ID: <CnuuAD.13F@luva.stgt.sub.org>
Lines: 16

In article <2nog3l$hqh@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>,
Vax <vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>My guess:
>The writes are faster than the reads because they are being cached
>and not physically ''written''.  However, the reads must actually access
>the disk.

Yes. Let iozone go further in auto mode. You will see more liable
figures with 8 or maybe 16 MB files.

Bye,
-Michael
-- 
------------------------------+------------------------------
Michael Giegerich             | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org
------------------------------+------------------------------