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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:18:00 +0100
From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Organization: Logical Tracking and Tracing International AG, Switzerland
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To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
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Subject: Re: Easy read-heavy benchmark kicking around?
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Hi, Brian,

Brian Hurt wrote:

> So the question is: is there an easy to install and run, read-heavy
> benchmark out there that I can wave at them to get them to fix the
> problem?

For sequential read performance, use dd. Most variants of dd I've seen
output some timing information, and if not, do a "time dd
if=/your/device of=/dev/null bs=1M" on the partition.

Markus
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