Performance numbers?

[Ivan Voras]

2009/2/3 Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org>:

> Ok, I tried gzero, and now the numbers are *much* different.  I'm getting
> roughly 60,000 ops/s now single threaded, or about 140,000 ops/s using 4
> threads.  Much better! :)  I could not for the life of me remember
> geom_zero, so thanks for the reminder.

What do you mean by "4 threads"? 4 parallel instances of dd?