On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data
> > doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening
> > data, try
> >
> > time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; time sync
> >
> > The dd returns as soon as all data could be buffered in RAM. Only sync
> > will show how long it takes to actually write out the data to disk.
> > also explains why you see better results is writeout starts earlier.
>
> I am still getting better I feel:
Yes. You have a faster Disk that writes about 45 MB/s. But I am not sure I
understand what you want to know?
> [sukhoi@Typhoon ~]$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; time
> sync
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 19.5007 seconds, 55.1 MB/s
>
> real 0m20.439s
> user 0m0.004s
> sys 0m4.535s
>
> real 0m4.625s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.125s
>
>
> [sukhoi@Typhoon ~]$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024 | sync
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.8707 seconds, 51.4 MB/s
>
> real 0m22.449s
> user 0m0.002s
> sys 0m4.922s
>
>
> Linux used here is not 2.6.20-rc5, but it's a FC6 2.6.19 binary. Shall
> post the results with 2.6.20-rc5.
>
> BTW, does the results vary with a customized kernel (configured w.r.t
> Processor & Hardware) than a generic kernel like FC6?
I'd guess the kernel won't make much of a difference as the time is
mostly determined by RAM and disk speeds.
> Are there any other such test cases?
Well, what do you want to find out? Anyways, I am in no way expert in the
field of benchmarking.
Note to Willy:
I finally noticed my logic actually was not flawed. I stated why dd would
report approximately doubled throughputs with buffering, while you argued
why the total elapsed time would not change much.
Time to go to bed now...
Tim
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