Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Andreas Semt wrote: > Thanos Chatziathanassiou wrote: > >> RAID5 has a reputation of good read speeds and really lousy write >> speeds. >> Do you happen to know what the sustained write speed of your RAID5 >> array (ie locally) is ? >> > > Can you recommend a good hd benchmark for Linux (especially Debian)? > So I can test a little (and blame the RAID-5 if your assumption is true). > apart from ``time dd if=/dev/zero of=/raid/mount/point/dummy count=XXXXXX'' there is also bonnie, bonnie++ and IOZone Bonnie http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/ Bonnie++ http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ IOzone file system benchmark http://www.iozone.org/