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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se>
Subject: Re: DMA and PIO (was Re: Problems with timer interrupt chaining and SmartDrv)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
>> From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
>> Try this test.  Open task manager so you can monitor CPU usage.  Using the 
>> default DMA, read a 500MB file from disk.  Using a modern disk this should 
>> take less than 10 seconds and use no more than 2-3 percent of the CPU.

> What program does one use to read a file, but otherwise do nothing?

"cat file >/dev/null"?


Right,

						MartinS