On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:13:25PM +0100, Netzhaut wrote:
> Here is the output:
> 
> bigmac# time dd if=Testdatei of=/dev/null bs=64k
> 160+1 records in
> 160+1 records out
> 10509913 bytes transferred in 6 secs (1751652 bytes/sec)
> 0.0u 4.1s 0:06.21 67.4% 0+0k 169+1io 1pf+0w

Had you just created `Testdatei' before running this test?  If so, then
the file was probably cached.  You can try to empty the cache by reading
a bunch of files or possibly by
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=100" (assuming that you
have less than 100MB of RAM.

If this was with a clear cache, those numbers don't look as bad as I
expected them to.

-allen

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