On 11/16/2014 12:13 AM, William Light wrote:
Correction: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
I guess the model on Amazon has an updated CPU (?).
http://ark.intel.com/products/64896/Intel-Core-i5-3320M-Processor-3M-Cache-…
will@ashland ~% dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1M
count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.68905 s, 18.4 MB/s
That's only marginally faster than my i7-2600S. I wonder if your kernel
is making use of your CPU's Secure Key feature?
What Linux distribution and kernel do you have?
2014-11-16 14:57:26 dpchrist@i72600s ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
7.7
2014-11-16 14:57:30 dpchrist@i72600s ~
$ uname -a
Linux i72600s 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 x86_64
GNU/Linux
David