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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Iozone: local vs nfs drives
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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I would be interested in the answer to this, I see the same behaviour on
> > a 2940/Quantum Atlas combo, although the numbers are quite a bit higher.
> > :)
> > 
> > In any case, given specifically the issue of news, where most activity is
> > reading, this is disturbing.
> 
> IOZONE isn't the benchmark to use to determine news performance.
>
	Actually, both my IOZONE tests were done on "non-news" drives...
they were done on /usr, on relatively dead systems..

Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org