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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@gams.at>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bottleneck on /dev/null
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:07:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320170728.GQ29167@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0303201150140.4241@chaos>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
...
> Yes. That's better. It may have been a diagnostic error
> in the code of the first person reporting this --also.
> 
> The data-rate is so high that I might have wrapped several
> times! I didn't think it would be that high, only 2 to 3
> gigibyte/second, not over 4 Gb/s (with 130MHz RAM no less)

  Furthermore,  in Linux you are really measuring syscall overhead
  to  "/dev/null" write,  which does never do memory transfers of
  any kind from user-space to kernel.

... 
> Its interesting that the data-rate is higher with the network
> plugged in and getting all those M$ broadcast messages. But, as
> expected, its more stable without.

  Quite so.

> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson

/Matti Aarnio

      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-20 14:57 Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2003-03-20 15:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20 16:21   ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-20 16:33     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-20 17:01       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20 17:07         ` Matti Aarnio [this message]

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