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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr index b93807f2ffc0..0e9085194e41 100644 --- a/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr @@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ It does reads and writes of blocks, testing for the limit of sustained data rate (usually limited by the drive or controller) and updates on a file (better simulating normal operating conditions and quite dependent on drive and OS optimisations). -The per character read and write tests are generally limited by CPU speed -only on current generation hardware. It takes some 35 SPECint92 to read + +The per-character read and write tests are generally limited by CPU speed +only on current-generation hardware. It takes some 35 SPECint92 to read or write a file at a rate of 1MB/s using getc() and putc(). + The seek tests are dependent on the buffer cache size, since the fraction of disk blocks that fits into the buffer cache will be found without any disk operation and will contribute zero seek time readings. I.e. if the |