Re: weird throughput on write to SATA disk

[Grant Grundler]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Can you try "dd oflag=direct if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"?

sorry...meant to type "if=/dev/zero"...I don't recall if /dev/null
will work the same.

grant
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