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  1. .\" $Id$
  2. .TH DISK 8 "$Date$" "(c)1994 Larry McVoy" "LMBENCH"
  3. .SH NAME
  4. disk \- report raw disk performance
  5. .SH SYNOPSIS
  6. .B disk rdisk
  7. .SH DESCRIPTION
  8. .B disk
  9. reports the seek latencies and transfer bandwidths for the
  10. raw disk
  11. .BR rdisk .
  12. It determines the disk size and measures seek latencies
  13. for 2000 seek distances and transfer bandwidths for 150
  14. zone locations. The measurement points are spread uniformly
  15. across the disk to provide a representative picture of the
  16. disk performance.
  17. The seek distance is expressed in megabytes, since
  18. .B disk
  19. does not have access to the raw disk geometry information.
  20. The zone location is expressed in megabytes from location 0
  21. of the disk.
  22. .SH OUTPUT
  23. Output format for seek latencies is \f(CB"%0.1f %.2f\\n", megabytes,
  24. milli-seconds\fP, i.e.,
  25. .sp
  26. .ft CB
  27. 25.33
  28. .ft
  29. Output format for zone bandwidths is \f(CB"%0.1f %.2f\\n", megabytes,
  30. megabytes_per_second\fP, i.e.,
  31. .sp
  32. .ft CB
  33. 8.00 25.33
  34. .ft
  35. .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  36. Funding for the development of
  37. this tool was provided by Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation.
  38. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  39. lmbench(8).