On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:25:45AM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Sure. Output of 'vmstat 1' follows:
>...
> 0 2 0 0 43148 5328 389516 0 0 0 9548 174 97 0 4 95
> 0 2 0 0 35144 5336 397316 0 0 0 7820 176 73 0 3 97
> 0 2 0 0 25172 5344 407036 0 0 0 9724 188 183 0 4 96
> 0 2 1 0 17300 5352 414708 0 0 0 7744 174 78 0 4 96
>...
> Notice how there's planty of RAM. I'm writing sequentially to a file
> on the ext2 filesystem. The disk I'm writing on is a 7200rpm IDE,
> capable of ~ 22 MB/s and I'm still getting only ~ 9 MB/s. Weird!
Same here. But hey, at least it doesn't swap now! :)
Also, dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=1024k seems to totally kill everything
else on my box until I ^C it.
Simon-
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