Matt Mossholder on 16 Sep 2007 01:35:06 -0000 |
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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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