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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: SCSI-2 Adapters for SCO ODT
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:34:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <C05DI5.BI1@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec29.165257.29411@Celestial.COM> <1992Dec30.025908.20372@netcom.com> <1992Dec31.201533.15254@clarinet.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.201533.15254@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- >SCSI-2, EISA -- they sound great. But what kind of throughput are people
- >really getting from them? What I find seems to indicate that most of
- >the disks today are putting out no more than one to two megabytes a second.
- >
- >Is this wrong? If it's right, then I doubt you gain much from a SCSI bus
- >that can go at 10 mb/s instead of 5 mb/s, or an EISA adapter that can
- >do much more.
- >
- >Time your raw read times on a quiet system (as root) with
- >
- > time dd if=/dev/{drive} of=/dev/null bs=35k count=256
- >
- >Twiddle the numbers as appropriate and look at the real time figure that
- >comes out to calculate megabytes/second. Am I missing something with my
- >Adaptek 1542B and Fujuitsu 500mb SCSI disk? Are some of you getting rates
- >of 5mb/second, or over 5mb/second on SCSI-2 disks or EISA systems?
-
- No. Your peak throughput won't go up a lot. What does happen is that you can
- have multiple streams at something approaching the same rate. So for busy
- multiple user systems, with multple disks, you can get a much larger amount
- of I/O done. Unfortunately the latency associated with an individual transfer
- stays about the same.
-
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