Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:17:52 -0400 Received: from B5549.pppool.de ([213.7.85.73]:13238 "EHLO nicole.de.interearth.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:17:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes From: Daniel Egger To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <3D5899DB.B087E40D@zip.com.au> References: <3D56146B.C3CAB5E1@zip.com.au> <20020811142938.GA681@www.kroptech.com> <3D56A83E.ECF747C6@zip.com.au> <20020812002739.GA778@www.kroptech.com> <3D57406E.D39E9B89@zip.com.au> <20020813002603.GA20817@www.kroptech.com> <3D5857A4.FE358FA2@zip.com.au> <20020813022550.GA6810@www.kroptech.com> <3D587706.A0F2DC21@zip.com.au> <20020813041011.GA12227@www.kroptech.com> <3D5899DB.B087E40D@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 13 Aug 2002 17:39:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1029253148.28098.14.camel@sonja.de.interearth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 30 Am Die, 2002-08-13 um 07.32 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > 1m 23s (I said it was a slow disk ;) > gack. I've seen pencils which can write faster than that. Interesting. Even up-to-date notebook are not much faster on an ext3 fs: egger@sonja:/localstuff/temp$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=600 ; sync 600+0 Records ein 600+0 Records aus real 0m58.375s user 0m0.010s sys 0m4.930s > So your wirespeed actually exceeds the disk speed. That changes things. This is trivial especially with mainstream machines being shipped with GigE. -- Servus, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/