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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 1997 02:58:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com)
Cc:        plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it)
Message-ID:  <199708100758.CAA01850@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708100714.AAA04251@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Aug 10, 97 00:14:29 am"

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> l count=1600 bs=64k&
> >i.e. start two of them at the same time.
> >I get as result:
> >104857600 bytes transferred in 41.430049 secs (2530955 bytes/sec)
> >104857600 bytes transferred in 41.437855 secs (2530478 bytes/sec)
> 
> What would be much more interesting to me is if you would do this on a
> four-drive ccd stripe-set, both with Ultra-Wide SCSI and "UltraIDE".
> It would be interesting to have a process running non-stop, measuring
> the amount of left-over CPU, at the same time.
> 
That *would* be interesting.  Here are the results for running 2 and 3
concurrent tests -- my GUESS it is likely that the drive is fairly slow
because of the small (read ahead) cache on it -- this is on the same
drive:

1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 68.005133 secs (1541907 bytes/sec)
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 68.032161 secs (1541295 bytes/sec)

1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 90.446126 secs (1159338 bytes/sec)
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 96.159300 secs (1090457 bytes/sec)
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 96.263071 secs (1089282 bytes/sec)

John




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