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The only thing worse than dd is bonnie++. Please, folks, use fio, or at least iozone, with multiple threads and/or a queue depth greater than one.

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Are you sure? Bonnie++ has byte-wise and block-wise tests. Yes, the byte-wise tests are CPU bound (as expected), but I have not seen that for the block-wise tests on any machine so far?

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