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DD Test Question

BellaBella Member
edited July 2014 in General

Hi.

This is my first time doing this, is this good?

[root@spare ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest

16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.715515 s, 1.5 GB/s
[root@spare ~]#

Comments

  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    should be ok. try testing something real life and feel if its responsive

  • matthewvzmatthewvz Member, Host Rep

    Looks good. Just keep one thing in mind, dd doesn't give you an idea of how real world performance is going to be. People just love the big numbers, I've always seen it as a 'hey guys look how big my e-peen is!!!1' type thing.

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  • BellaBella Member

    Okay thanks.

  • @jcaleb said:
    should be ok. try testing something real life and feel if its responsive

    This. Also ioping is handy.

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