2.6.18-1.2189.fc5: Decreased data throughput?

[Mostafa Afgani]

On 10/11/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl> wrote:

> since a normal disk can maybe do 80Mbyte/sec on a sunny day while going
> downhill.. it looks like your benchmark is measuring something else
> (like VM caching policy).... if you want to measure disk throughput you
> might want to consider using another benchmark; I tend to use tiobench
> (tiobench.sf.net) for things like this...

Thanks for the info. The results produced by tiobench were definitely
better matched.

best,
-M