Hi Leo,

Leo Weppelman wrote:
[...]
> I'll look for it. Here at work, in my clipboard was the following piece of
> Bonnie data (Note that this was on a 300Mb old MAXTOR, I had one on 1024 and
> one on 512 byte sector size in my system at that time):
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> 100-1K    100   384 60.0   380 11.6   290 13.6   509 99.3   994 23.7  30.0  9.0
> 
> 100-512   100   583 99.0  1110 63.3   559 47.3   508 99.3  1005 46.6  31.5  8.8
> 
> 100-512O  100   583 99.1  1114 64.4   558 50.1   508 99.4  1005 46.6  31.6  8.9

How come that the 1K-sector is so much slower on output, but about
the same on input???

  Guenther