On 10/10/11 4:17 AM, matthew green wrote:
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:38:50PM +0530, Ravishankar S wrote:Thanks to all who replied. dd now shows 67 MB/sec!!. However, i have another question. I can now ftp @ 25 MB/sec and it never increases beyond this point. I have a dlink gigabit router and gigabit cards on both ends. client is an ubuntu laptopCan your laptop really sustain more than 25MB/sec of writes to its disk?dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=8192 of=bigfile8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out 8589934592 bytes transferred in 124.189 secs (69168240 bytes/sec) this is just a normal 500G laptop disk, not quite 2 years old.
Yeah, I get easily 80MB/s scping files from/to my 2 years old laptop. With your dd test I get 50MB/s.
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