At 12:59 -0400 2/10/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Try running the same benchmark but use bs=4k and count=1048576
Just finished doing that now - comparison graphs are here:
http://community.novacaster.com/showarticle.pl?id=7492
While these tests are running can you run any processes on another session?
Yes, but responsiveness is sluggish eg (taken during 4k 'deadline' scheduler test)
# time ls /usr/lib
real 0m15.959s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.016s
S.