Re: hdparm

[Alexander <vulture@abac.com>]

Hi...

Isn't the buffer-cache the one on the HDD though? If so I still think it
has to go through the UDMA interface...

Alex

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:53:29 +0200
> From: Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>
> To: Alexander <vulture@abac.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: hdparm
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:33:33AM -0700, Alexander wrote:
> (...)
> > Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA
> > can't go past 33 MB/s.
> (...)
> 
> Buffer-cache read == read from memory (RAM) to memory - this test speed of
> your memory system.
> 
> Mirek
> 


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