Thx
Ram disks are only good for correctness testing.btw, why not just use tmpfs (it's almost like RAMdisk), put there 50gig file and test your RAW I/O from there?
I think there is no need to run the computational part and create same 50gig PI file over and over again...
tmpfs hint:
add one line to your /etc/fstab
something like:
tmpfs /testdir tmpfs size=50G,mode=0775,uid=YOURUSERNAME,gid=YOURGROUP 0 0
edit yourusername and yourgroup to match your's
(or just set mode to 0777 and make that directory writeable for everyone)
be sure not to delete the other lines in fstab
and then run "mount -a"
It doesn't help much when I'm actually trying to measure the performance of something on actual hard drives.
Also, I do in fact test the I/O parts by themselves to narrow down the possibilities.
But there are some parts that involve doing I/O in parallel with computation - for those I need to see how the computation threads will interfere with the I/O threads.
In Windows, I have to set the I/O threads to a higher priority than the computation threads to keep the I/O threads from being starved by the computation threads.
In Linux, I'm still trying to figure out what's going on... though I won't be able to do much anyway since OpenMP lacks priority control.
Nah... It seemed easy enough when I found that you can do it by printing "\033[01;31m".btw, do you use ncurses for colored output?
So all I needed was to add a linux version to each of my color changing functions and all was good. Too easy...
I tested ext4 today. (Formatted all 8 drives to ext4 for this.)with ntfs I recomend ntfs-3g, it's userspace implementation, and works very well, (last time I used it was about a year ago and it was flawless)
in Ubuntu search with aptitude for ntfs3g or ntfs-3g (not sure how it's called there...)
Yes, Linux does not like NTFS at all. 30 - 60% faster I/O speeds on ext4 than NTFS. But for some reason it still doesn't like the raw I/Os - which, in contrast, worked really well on Windows...
Hey!!! I guarantee you that 95% of OCers who are called "Xtreme" do not have 18.5 TB of disk and 64 GB of ram in one machine...PS:
You are not OCing, your are not Xtreme
EDIT: ok, just noticedyou are OCing your i7, good boy
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And still be able to close the case...
Not just that... this baby has had that 64 GB of ram since January 2009.
Also, this board won't OC... I tried SetFSB... doesn't seem to work at all on this board.![]()
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