Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:14:08 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any good comparison of Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Hurd? Message-ID: <199801142014.VAA01990@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <6373.884772923@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "Jan 14, 98 11:15:23 am"
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As sthaug@nethelp.no wrote... > >From <34BC2FA5.E334B191@star-gate.com>: [EIDE versus SCSI single stream dd figures] [snip] > > So when reading through the file system the performance depends *much* > more on block size for the EIDE drive - I don't know why. But given > the right block size, *this* particular EIDE disk seems to be always > somewhat faster than the corresponding SCSI disk. EIDE, being a much more simpler protocol at the interface level than SCSI, has less overhead. SCSI becomes advantagous in bigger systems, with lots of I/O going on, where things like on-device queueing etc become effective. > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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