Thread: SDHC kernel updated - mk3
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guerby is offline guerby
2007-05-13 , 16:12
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
As for testing "write" performance - this is tricky as the OS will buffer writes giving unrealistic performance figures. Hopefully someone else can suggest a methodology to test write performance.
To test write speed I use something like that:

$ sync; time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=testw1 bs=1M count=100;sync"

dd will output a useless MB/s, but time "real" output is what you're looking for, 100/"real time" will give you MByte/second.

Hope this helps,

Laurent