From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Karthik Sarangan <karthiks@cdac.in>
Cc: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI disk speed inconsistency
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:00:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4342FB6F.4070100@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4340F4AB.3070107@cdac.in>
Karthik Sarangan wrote:
> I get a read speed of 69MBps from my SCSI disk and a write speed of
> 49MBps from the same.
> An IOMeter benchmark on the net says that 68MBps is the sustained speed
> for a write.
>
> Could someone tell me how to increase my IO speed?
>
> I have a Linux Kernel 2.6 in a RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4 and I used
> the foll.
> Read : sg_dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=262144 count=1024 dio=1
> Write: sg_dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=262144 count=1024 dio=1
Karthik,
For accurate timing with "sd" devices use "odir=1" rather
than "dio=1". "dio=1" only applies to sg devices so it has
no effect in your above example. [Perhaps I should add a
warning about this in sg_dd.]
Also with sg_dd you should use "bs=512" and read about the
"bpt=<n>" option in the man page. Also look at the "blk_sgio=0|1"
and the "time=1" option.
Doug Gilbert
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 21:59 UTC|newest]
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2005-10-03 9:06 SCSI disk speed inconsistency Karthik Sarangan
2005-10-04 22:00 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
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