General performance of NAND operations i.e mount and ls

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Thu Sep 6 07:21:33 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:37 +0200, Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> Okay, what would I roughly excpect on this system?
> 
> # time dd if=/dev/mtd4 of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=512
> 512+0 records in
> 512+0 records out
> real    0m 0.61s
> user    0m 0.01s
> sys     0m 0.61s
> # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd4 bs=4096 count=512
> 512+0 records in
> 512+0 records out
> real    0m 1.08s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 1.08s

Not sure about your system, but the hardware I worked with was ~8 times
faster on read and ~3 times faster on write.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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