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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: SCSI problems
- Message-ID: <BxB7p8.42F@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:34:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu> pjs@raster.Kodak.COM (Patrick Sweeney) writes:
- >Hi,
- > I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
- >on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
- >controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
- >sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
-
- That is the nature of the beast. If you use the standard scsi code
- that comes with the kernel in 0.98.3, it is going to be slow.
-
- We are working on a new version of the scsi code which has
- dramatically faster I/O (600-800 Kb/s measured with iozone). It is currently
- in alpha testing and once we get a few more of the known problems cleaned up,
- there will be a more public release.
-
- -Eric
- --
- Eric Youngdale
-