Kent Polk said:

>Pffft. I saw that and promptly discarded it. :^(  This looks a lot
>better:
>
>$ /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1638400
>1638400+0 records in
>1638400+0 records out
>107374182400 bytes transferred in 39 secs (2753184164 bytes/sec)
>       39.51 real         0.98 user        38.30 sys

I just tried this:

speedy# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1638400
1638400+0 records in
1638400+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 52 secs (2064888123 bytes/sec)
       51.57 real         1.26 user        50.28 sys

Of course, it's a GENERIC kernel and default BIOS settings. But it does
look like the VIA chipset sucks somewhat.

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