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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: age <ahuisman@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nuno.silva@vgertech.com
Subject: Re: READAHEAD
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:28:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031012846.48fa233c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA25377.3050207@cistron.nl>

age <ahuisman@cistron.nl> wrote:
>
> > Lots of people have been reporting this.  It's rather weird.
>   >
>   > Is the same effect observable when reading a large file, or is it only
>   > observable via `hdparm -t'?
>   >
> 
>  Hi Andrew,
> 
>  Here are some tests with bonnie++.

Like so many of these things, bonnie++ is generally far, far too complex
for kernel performance tuning.

Please, just use time, cat, dd, etc.

	mount /dev/xxx /mnt/yyy
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/yyy/x bs=1M count=1024
	umount /dev/xxx
	mount /dev/xxx /mnt/yyy
	time cat /mnt/yyy/x > /dev/null

nice'n'easy.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-30 19:23 READAHEAD age
2003-10-30 21:44 ` READAHEAD Andrew Morton
2003-10-31  7:43   ` READAHEAD Nuno Silva
2003-10-31  8:03     ` READAHEAD Andrew Morton
2003-10-31 12:20   ` READAHEAD age
2003-10-31  9:28     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-31  9:29       ` READAHEAD Andrew Morton
2003-11-01  9:15         ` READAHEAD age
2003-11-03  0:15         ` READAHEAD Derek Foreman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27  2:38 Readahead Alan Stern
2005-09-27  3:06 ` Readahead Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-27  4:24 ` Readahead Andrew Morton
2005-09-28 18:40   ` Readahead Alan Stern
2003-11-01 17:22 READAHEAD Voluspa
2002-04-16 20:21 readahead Andries.Brouwer
2002-04-16 19:10 readahead Andries.Brouwer
2002-04-16 19:23 ` readahead Andrew Morton
2002-04-16 19:33   ` readahead Jens Axboe
2002-04-16 13:54 readahead Andries.Brouwer
2002-04-16 16:08 ` readahead Steven Cole
2002-04-16 18:25 ` readahead Andrew Morton

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