Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Alan Cox
2002-05-09T14:41:30Z

> doing the same test thru the block-layer was basically capped at around
> 135mbyte/sec. (simultaneous "dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512 count=35M").

Tweak your dd to use O_DIRECT and use an O_DIRECT capable fs - that tells
you if its copy overhead or disk side stuff.