Matt Mossholder on 16 Sep 2007 01:35:06 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] help me design my server


On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:07 -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I was really just trying to use dd as a way to test some I/O. I would
> assume that making the bigfile with dd is about the most activity each
> of my servers would get. So it was a way for me to see how they would
> perform with some disk load.

Disks are actually quite good at sequential access... if you really want
to stress things, try generating a lot of random access. You could use
one of disk benchmarking tools such as bonnie++, for example.

                                --Matt



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