Re: Linux 2.6.29

Mark Lord
2009-04-04T12:46:51Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> "fio" does well:
>>
>> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=summary
>
> Neat tool, Jens...
>
>
>> and I think it comes with a few example files. Here's the random write
>> file that Jens suggested, and that works pretty well..
>>
>> It first creates a 2GB file to do the IO on, then does random 4k
>> writes to it with O_DIRECT.
>>
>> If your SSD does badly at it, you'll just want to kill it, but it
>> shows you how many MB/s it's doing (or, in the sucky case, how many
>> kB/s).
>
>
> heh, so far, the SSD is poking along...
>
> Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w] [2.5% done] [ 0/ 282 kb/s] [eta 02h:24m:59s]
..

Try turning on the drive write cache? hdparm -W1