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

On 10/10/11 4:17 AM, matthew green wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, I get easily 80MB/s scping files from/to my 2 years old laptop. 
With your dd test I get 50MB/s.



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