From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 25 17:49:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01644 for current-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 17:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01637 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 17:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id AAA07185; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 00:49:09 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:49:09 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Warner Losh cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speedingup the "worldstone" In-Reply-To: <199608241748.LAA02804@rover.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > Does anybody have a list of the typical bottle necks in this process? > > I know I can solve this problem by getting a good P6/200 with 64M of > memory and a good Adaptech Ultra Wide PCI card and a fast wide scsi > disk. But I don't have the $7500 (or even $5000) to do that just now > :-). I think you've already done things nicely by spreading out the disk i/o, compiles are also CPU intensive so the x486 looks like your bottle neck. I'm skepical that you can really get the disks singing in harmony to take advantage of Ultra Wide. Though it's generally a good thing to have advances in bus architectures so that it puts pressure on the peripherals to catch up. Regards, Mike Hancock