re: [SOLVED]Re: Only 8 MB/sec write throughput with NetBSD 5.1 AMD64

> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:38:50PM +0530, Ravishankar S wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks to all who replied. dd now shows 67 MB/sec!!. However, i have
> > another question. I can now ftp @ 25 MB/sec and it never increases
> > beyond this point. I have a dlink gigabit router and gigabit cards on
> > both ends. client is an  ubuntu laptop
> 
> Can your laptop really sustain more than 25MB/sec of writes to its disk?

> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=8192 of=bigfile
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
8589934592 bytes transferred in 124.189 secs (69168240 bytes/sec)

this is just a normal 500G laptop disk, not quite 2 years old.


.mrg.