On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:

> I usually change the default
> 8K/1K to 32K/8K. Real life performance is vastly improved and the
> difference in speed between reading the raw disk device and reading a large
> test file is not noticeable, as opposed to the normal 1:3 ratio.

This strikes me as a bit odd; on my machines (486s, Pentiums,
low-end Sparcs) with the standard 8K/1K block/fragment sizes, I
normally get very similar speeds out of bonnie and iozone very
close to what I get from dd if=/dev/rsdxx of=/dev/null.

cjs

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