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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

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