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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:52:19 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: News server... 
Message-ID:  <199609191752.KAA11272@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Sep 96 10:38:43 -0500. <199609191538.KAA10990@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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>I also do not have a GOOD set of tools with which to measure concurrency
>within a news filesystem.  I have some basic programs that I run several
>of simultaneously, but how fair they are?  Dunno.  It is certainly a
>problem that could use a researcher.  All I am interested in is convincing
>people that a stripe size of 8K is _foolish_.  :-)

I am about half way though writing a little benchmarking tool that
works a lot more like news (lots of files in lots of directories,
being read and written simultaneously).  I would be "done" by now if I
had more time...  Is there anything specific you would like to see in
something like this?

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