Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Mark Lord]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > "fio" does well:
> >
> >     http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=summary
>
> Neat tool, Jens...
>
>
> > and I think it comes with a few example files. Here's the random write 
> > file that Jens suggested, and that works pretty well..
> >
> > It first creates a 2GB file to do the IO on, then does random 4k 
> > writes to it with O_DIRECT.
> >
> > If your SSD does badly at it, you'll just want to kill it, but it 
> > shows you how many MB/s it's doing (or, in the sucky case, how many 
> > kB/s).
>
>
> heh, so far, the SSD is poking along...
>
> Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w] [2.5% done] [     0/   282 kb/s] [eta 02h:24m:59s]
..

Try turning on the drive write cache?   hdparm -W1

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