Comment Comment by yakubin On 5.10.0-14-amd64 "pv < /dev/urandom >/dev/null" reports 72.2MiB/s. "pv < /dev/zero >/dev/null" reports 16.5GiB/s. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with 16GB of DDR4 3000MHz memory."tr '\0' 1 </dev/zero | pv >/dev/null" reports 1.38GiB/s."yes | pv >/dev/null" reports 7.26GiB/s.So "/dev/urandom" may not be the best source when testing performance. parent yakubin 4 years ago
"tr '\0' 1 </dev/zero | pv >/dev/null" reports 1.38GiB/s.
"yes | pv >/dev/null" reports 7.26GiB/s.
So "/dev/urandom" may not be the best source when testing performance.