Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:42:34 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <199608240042.RAA03747@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:33:09 PDT." <199608232333.QAA13220@salsa.gv.ssi1.com>
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>On Aug 23, 3:44pm, "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: >} Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 >} I've also implemented bowrite which >} converts sync writes to ordered async writes giving around a 10% >} improvement on some of the ad-hoc benchmarks I've tried. Its not as fast >} as mounting async (that does delayed writes), but I'll take a safe 10% >} improvement any day. > >This isn't really hardware related, but I think the "soft updates" stuff >mentioned in >http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE-TR-254-95.ps.Z >would be quite nice to have. I believe Kirk is already working on the soft update stuff. > --- Truck -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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