Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:31 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iozone: local vs nfs drives Message-ID: <199610172054.NAA12845@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Oct 96 15:18:37 -0400. <Pine.NEB.3.95.961017151743.452B-100000@spirit.ki.net>
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>On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote: >> > I would be interested in the answer to this, I see the same behaviour on >> > a 2940/Quantum Atlas combo, although the numbers are quite a bit higher. >> > In any case, given specifically the issue of news, where most activity is >> > reading, this is disturbing. >> IOZONE isn't the benchmark to use to determine news performance. > Actually, both my IOZONE tests were done on "non-news" drives... >they were done on /usr, on relatively dead systems.. Did you have tagged-command queuing enabled? According to my tests, that will make a BIG difference, if you have decent drives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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