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- From: martin@pandora.demon.co.uk (Martin White)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!pandora.demon.co.uk!martin
- Subject: Re: Question about ISA/IDE disk throughput (pc newbie)
- References: <726137676.AA29980@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:49:45 +0000
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.204945.2@pandora.demon.co.uk>
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- >SC> Umm...Sorry to burst your bubble, but... I have a ISA bus 486/33 with
- >SC> a generic (read $20) IDE & I/O board controlling a Seagate ST3283A. I
- >SC> have achieved peak transfer rates of 1250KB/sec. The iozone benchmark
- >SC> under linux (with a Minix partition) consistently does 550KB/sec writes
- >SC> and about 640KB/sec reads. Ofcourse, I run my I/O bus at 11MHz instead
- >SC> of the standard 8MHz but 200KB/sec is too low. A caching controller
- >SC> with lots of memory will probably do much better, but you are better
- >
- > Isn't that benching the cache speed? I think the actual memory <-->
- > disk transfer is still at ~500K/sec. Would the same benchmark give the
- > same results without the cache? While the effective transfer rate is
- > really that high--1250KB/sec peak-- the actual disk<-->memory transfer
- > is far lower, the difference attributed to the chache performance.
-
- Just out of interest I just ran iozone v1.16 here on my setup,
- 386sx25/16Mb (not runnning the BUS as fast as I could as the video
- card freaks out if I do), IDE caching controller with 4Mb on board,
- Quantum 240Mb IDE drive with on board 256Kb cache.
-
- I got iozone to use a 10Mb file to defeat linuxs cache, which
- resulted in the following.
-
- - Write time 25.29 Sec
- - 414620 Bytes/Sec write
- - 217141 Bytes/Sec read
-
- That was writing/reading 20480 512 byte records to a Minix partition.
-
- Under DOS with coretest I get 800Kb second transfer rate with IDE
- controller cache disabled, and 1400Kb second with it enabled, but then
- a assume coretest is using a smaller file.
-
- Martin
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