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- From: andrew@bic.East.Sun.COM (Andrew Harrison - Sun UK - Cambridge Consultant)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: IDE faster than Mips SCSI disk
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:15:53 GMT
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- The block size used does make a big differance but so does having a
- decent SCSI platter
- to deal with.
-
- If the figures I have for SCSI are anything to go by, 600 Kb/s read and
- write for IDE
- mean that these drives and the I/O interface on the PC have a way to go.
-
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- I tested a 1.3 GB SCSI Seagate Elite and a 424 MB SCSI drive, don't know
- its name
- on a SPARCstation 2.
- Both Drives are standard SUN drives running on a 5 MB/s SCSI. They are
- not the fastest drives
- SUN sells. There are a 1 GB and 2.1 GB drive both of which operate on a
- 10 MB/s SCSI bus and
- both of which have lower average access rates and higher burst transfer
- rates than the
- 1.3 GB drive on the SPARCstation 2.
-
-
- 1.3 GB
- iozone 100
-
- Default uses 512 byte blocks.
-
-
- Writing the 100 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp' ...64.637813 seconds
- Reading the file...54.335514 seconds
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- IOZONE performance measurements:
- 1622438 bytes/second for writing file
- 1930160 bytes/second for reading file
-
- If we up the block size to 8192
- iozone 100 8192
-
- Writing the 100 Megabyte file 'iozone.tmp' ...43.474970 seconds
- Reading the file...27.846924
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- IOZONE performance measurements:
- 2411907 bytes/second for writing the file
- 3765500 bytes/second for reading the file
-
- These results come from the middle of the 1.3 GB disk. As the disk is
- ZBR its transfer
- rate is faster on the outer traks than the inner tracks , so this is an
- average result.
-
- 424 MB disk.
-
- This is the standard internal SCSI drive in SS2's and SS10's.
-
- iozone 32
-
- Default uses 512 byte blocks
-
- Writing the 32 Megabyte file 'iozone.tmp' ...26.460000 seconds
- Reading the file...19.550000 seconds
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- IOZONE performance measurements:
- 1268119 bytes/second for writing the file
- 1716339 bytes/second for reading the file
-
- If we up the block size to 8192
- iozone 32 8192
-
- Writing the 32 Megabyte file 'iozone.tmp' ...22.540000 seconds
- Reading the file...10.720000 seconds
-
- IOZONE performance measurements:
- 1488661 bytes/second for writing the file
- 3130077 bytes/second for reading the file
-
- I would expect the 1 GB and 2.1 GB drives to be 20 - 30% faster but I
- havn't got any
- in my machine to test.
-
- IOZONE uses read and write. This imposes a system call overhead. In
- practice more
- efficient I/O can be acheived using mmap() which considerably reduces
- the system
- call overhead.
-
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- Andrew Harrison
-
- SUN UK Consultancy
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