Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:54:49 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New DPT Driver Message-ID: <21105.869972089@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:42:24 BST." <33D73190.3B54AFBF@cablenet.net>
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Damian Hamill wrote in message ID <33D73190.3B54AFBF@cablenet.net>: > I've answered this myself. With an interleave factor of 16384 a copy of > /usr to the ccd file system had all disk activity on drives 1 & 5. With > an interleave factor of 65536 the activity was spread around all 8 > drives. A file copy is nowhere near the sort of test you wish to perform if you want to simulate a news server. In fact, the only *RELIABLE* test I have heard of to date is to run a news server for a few days at each stripe setting and see. The loading is just too difficult to simulate Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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