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SubjectRe: announce: fsopbench - filesystem operations benchmark
Yesterday david@lang.hm wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Tobi Oetiker wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Today david@lang.hm wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/optools/wiki/fsopbench
> > > >
> > > > It shows similar results on all configurations I have tested.
> > > > In the example below you see:
> > > >
> > > > * lstat: 10 times slower
> > > > * reading the first byte of a file: 80 times slower
> > > > * reading a directory entry: 16 times slower
> > > > * read rate: 40 times lower
> > >
> > > lower and slower than what?
> >
> > reading on an idle system vs reading on a system where writer
> > processees are active ...
>
> as a user I would expect that a disk that is busy being written to will be
> slower to read from.
>
> what would you expect to happen in this situation?

sure, the question is how much slower ... 40 times slower speed and
80 times slower response time is a bit much I would say ...

half the speed and half the response time would be what I would
expect ... but then thats just me ...

cheers
tobi
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