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Date:      Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:48:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        dyson@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Streamlogic RAID array benchmarks
Message-ID:  <199609190248.VAA01096@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960918222441.27050m-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Sep 18, 96 10:28:45 pm

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> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:
> >
> > If you are running -current (I forgot to check), and since you have
> > 64MBytes, the buffer cache will help even though it is overrun.  The
> > buffer cache policy is NOT pure LRU, and you will see the effects of
> > it on a 64MByte system even for a 100MByte benchmark.
> 
>     The tests were done on a 2.2-960801-SNAP system.  Regardless, it
> doesn't hide the fact that the RAID had much lower throughput than the
> single drive.  I going to try reformatting the RAID to level 0 and
> seeing if not having parity makes a difference (although I might as
> well save a few thousand dollars and just use ccd at that point).
>
I agree, and understand your point.  Also, ccd as of today (and
vn) are kind-of broken.  Appear to work, but are okay until
you need them (This is meant almost with humor -- but it isn't
funny to some people :-()...

John



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