Benchmark - 2nd run

[Walter]

Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:

                                          FreeBSD-4.9    FreeBSD-5.1     FreeBSD-5.2       DragonFly
File Read  (10 seconds)                  179477.0 KBps  167848.0 KBps    38635.0 KBps   179972.0 KBps 
File Write (10 seconds)                   18633.0 KBps   12800.0 KBps     7800.0 KBps    18433.0 KBps 
File Copy  (10 seconds)                   16298.0 KBps   11944.0 KBps     4436.0 KBps    16271.0 KBps 
File Read  (30 seconds)                  179598.0 KBps  169150.0 KBps    39068.0 KBps   177467.0 KBps 
File Write (30 seconds)                   18399.0 KBps   12589.0 KBps     7688.0 KBps    18277.0 KBps 
File Copy  (30 seconds)                   15297.0 KBps   11468.0 KBps     4375.0 KBps    15308.0 KBps 
C Compiler Test                             428.1 lpm      258.4 lpm       143.2 lpm       407.1 lpm  

Hi,

   Ignorant, non-hacker question here: Would the location of
the partitions on the disk (inner cylinders, outer cylinders,
middle .., etc.) affect the file operation benchmarks?  (As
I understand all these OS's are on one computer, iirc.  So,
the comparison of the times to access their respective slices
may not be on a "level playing field."  Or am I totally wrong?)
Walter