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**                               ESX3SRVR                                            **
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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=100000 of=small_file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=500000 of=medium_file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=1000000 of=large_file
# ls -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     1000000000 Aug  3 02:13 large_file * (953.67MB)
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     500000000 Aug  3 02:10 medium_file * (476.84MB)
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     100000000 Aug  3 02:09 small_file  * (95.37MB)

CP RESULTS (performed in random order):
(date && cp -f small_file small_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 02:43:41 End: 02:43:50 * (10.60MB/s)
Test 2: Start: 02:44:07 End: 02:44:12 * (19.07MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 03:09:47 End: 03:10:08 * (4.54MB/s)

(date && cp -f medium_file medium_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 02:44:30 End: 02:46:24 * (4.18MB/s)
Test 2: Start: 02:52:56 End: 02:54:49 * (4.22MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 03:19:10 End: 03:21:04 * (4.18MB/s)

(date && cp -f large_file large_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 02:47:20 End: 02:51:09 * (4.16MB/s)
Test 2: Start: 03:02:17 End: 03:06:12 * (4.06MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 03:10:52 End: 03:14:40 * (4.18MB/s)

FTP (localhost) Results (performed in random order):
large_file
1000000000 bytes received in 222 secs (4.4e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.30MB/s)
1000000000 bytes received in 220 secs (4.4e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.34MB/s)
1000000000 bytes received in 223 secs (4.4e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.28MB/s)

medium_file
500000000 bytes received in 111 secs (4.4e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.30MB/s)
500000000 bytes received in 106 secs (4.6e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.50MB/s)
500000000 bytes received in 109 secs (4.5e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.37MB/s)

small_file
100000000 bytes received in 20.2 secs (4.8e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (4.72MB/s)
100000000 bytes received in 5.46 secs (1.8e+04 Kbytes/sec) * (17.47MB/s)  ! cached?
100000000 bytes received in 13.6 secs (7.2e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (7.01MB/s)
100000000 bytes received in 16.8 secs (5.8e+03 Kbytes/sec) * (5.68MB/s)


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**   MYSRV (My OpenSuse 10.2 box at home... 2.8GHz Celery, 1 IDE Disk, 512MB RAM)    **
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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=100000 of=small_file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=500000 of=medium_file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=1000000 of=large_file
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root 1000000000 Aug  2 22:02 large_file  * (953.67MB)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root  500000000 Aug  2 22:01 medium_file * (476.84MB)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root  100000000 Aug  2 22:07 small_file  * (95.37MB)

CP RESULTS (performed in random order):
(date && cp small_file small_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 22:09:29 End: 22:09:29 * (-)
Test 2: Start: 23:00:57 End: 23:00:59 * (47.69MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 23:06:49 End: 23:06:50 * (95.37MB/s

(date && cp medium_file medium_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 22:09:47 End: 22:10:11 * (19.87MB/s)
Test 2: Start: 23:01:12 End: 23:01:44 * (14.90MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 23:08:33 End: 23:09:03 * (15.89MB/s)

(date && cp large_file large_file.00 && date)
Test 1: Start: 22:10:29 End: 22:11:32 * (15.14MB/s)
Test 2: Start: 23:03:25 End: 23:04:29 * (14.90MB/s)
Test 3: Start: 23:07:04 End: 23:08:09 * (14.67MB/s)

FTP (localhost) Results (performed in random order):
large_file
1000000000 bytes received in 00:50 * (18.90 MB/s)
1000000000 bytes received in 00:48 * (19.61 MB/s)
1000000000 bytes received in 00:51 * (18.58 MB/s)

medium_file
500000000 bytes received in 00:23 * (19.93 MB/s)
500000000 bytes received in 00:25 * (19.06 MB/s)
500000000 bytes received in 00:22 * (20.89 MB/s)

small_file
100000000 bytes received in 00:03 * (27.69 MB/s)
100000000 bytes received in 00:03 * (27.17 MB/s)
100000000 bytes received in 00:03 * (28.56 MB/s)