Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 17:05:11 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A performance mystery Message-ID: <199506020735.RAA15840@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199506020657.XAA09330@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 2, 95 02:57:30 am
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Charles Henrich stands accused of saying: > > I have a mystery for you folks. Consider this situation: > > a Compaq Prolinea 575 (75mhz Pentium) > 24mb ram > 3gb of "oldish" Seagate Disk on a Buslogic 946C Which 'oldish' disk? Are we talking, say, ST11200's? > Micron P90 Powerstation, > 64mb ram > Adaptec 2940 > And a brand new Connor drive And which connor? > Doing a time make of a specific configuration (kernel build) takes 9:30 on the > Micron, but on the Compaq its only 8:30. Same exact config/source (brand new > 2.0.5-A installs). Nothing else is going on on either boxes. What sort of filesystem layouts do you have? Is the compaq working on just one drive, or several? > Can anyone explain this to me? More input. > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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