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 is this:
> sync;
> time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; sync"
> which will actually time the write with the time command.
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