From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:56:01 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <755cee220967127b18c63c0f03fd1545@quintile.net> References: <755cee220967127b18c63c0f03fd1545@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] wrarenas Topicbox-Message-UUID: f2285526-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 and, writing should take the same amount of time as reading. that is you can switch -if and -of and you should get the same results. it could be that you are seeking around all over the place. on modern hardware, if you are doing significant seeks between each write, you can get down below 1mb/s. i addressed this problem in the diskless fileserver paper. - erik