Help Find Me An OpenVZ 2GB Ram VPS Under $10/Month

Jeffrey

Just to show you guy's how awesome this VPS is:

[root@oxygen ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 3.11278 seconds, 86.2 MB/s

miTgiB

@Jeffrey said: Just to show you guy's how awesome this VPS is:

[root@oxygen ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=16k conv=fdatasync

Could you preform the test properly and then post the results? Everyone uses bs=64k

Jeffrey

@miTgiB like this? :P

[root@oxygen ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.6679 seconds, 84.8 MB/s
[root@oxygen ~]#

Jeffrey

[root@oxygen ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=64k conv=fdatasync
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 44.8543 seconds, 95.8 MB/s
[root@oxygen ~]#

dmmcintyre3

84.8MB/s? slow.

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.42873 s, 198 MB/s

from a $30/year VPS.

nova

+1 for Hostigation too!

yomero

@Jeffrey said:

[root@oxygen ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=64k conv=fdatasync

Seems that you have no idea what is doing...

Francisco

Now now children put away your penises before @aldryic takes out an eye.

Francisco

yomero

@Francisco said: Now now children put away your penises before @aldryic takes out an eye.

My English isn't enough to understand that phrase, but I am afraid of something gay xD

CVPS_Chris

IF you ever need anything let me know, we can give you more disk space possibly

Jeffrey

@yomero Lol It's true, IDK what the hell those commands even mean, I am a n00b at this. Could you explain?

Jeffrey

@Francisco how about you put your's away so you can create more stock for BuyVM? LOL. JK :P

yomero

@Jeffrey said: @yomero Lol It's true, IDK what the hell those commands even mean, I am a n00b at this. Could you explain?

Ok, you are doing a linear disk test

if=/dev/zero

Copying from a virtual file called /dev/zero which just throws 0x00 chars in hex (I am right?)

of=test

Copying to a file in your disk called test

bs=64k

In blocks of 64KB each one.

count=16k

Copying 16k blocks, so 16000 blocks (of 64KB, due to the previous parameter).

conv=fdatasync

There are different ways how the Input/Output subsystem writes the data. In poarticular dd can do several things:

• Writing/Flushing the data inmediately to the disk.
• Writing and waiting for the cache to be flushed at the end.
• Writing and finish.
  With this flag you are using the 2nd method, so dd writes, flushes the cache and at the end it shows the time used to write the data and how fast did it (Megabytes per second).

Hope is clear.
And hope you are not being sarcastic.

Jeffrey

@yomero thanks, and no, I was not being sarcastic. Thanks for clearing this up for me!

miTgiB

@Jeffrey said: like this?

Yes, thank you, and 84MB/sec is respectable.