How much RAM does your machine have?

Write to the disk an amount that is larger than the amount of RAM and
see if you get the same result.

Also you can use hdparm to flush the caches before running dd the 2nd time.

2010/7/1 Shaochun Wang [off-list ref]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:54:55AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Roman Mamedov wrote:

quoted

 dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M count=2048 conv=fdatasync,notrunc

To be a bit more sure about accurate measurement, make sure the amount of
data you're transferring is twice the amount of RAM in the machine, the
above is only 2 gigs of data.

As suggested, I did the test again and got the following result:

       -bash-4.1$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=5000 conv=fdatasync,notrunc
       Password:
       5000+0 records in
       5000+0 records out
       5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB) copied, 63.497 s, 82.6 MB/s

       -bash-4.1$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=5000 conv=fdatasync,notrunc
       5000+0 records in
       5000+0 records out
       5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB) copied, 18.1033 s, 290 MB/s

I don't know why the second dd becomes 290MB/s and the first 82.6MB/s.

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State Key Laboratory of Computer Science,
Institute of Software,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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