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Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it)
In-Reply-To: <199709040045.RAA27340@george.arc.nasa.gov> from "lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov" at "Sep 3, 97 05:45:27 pm"
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In reply to lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov who wrote:
> 
> I did a simple "make world" today (Wed Sep  3 17:17:18 PDT 1997),
> on the PPro200 SCSCI system, with today's 3.0-current, and the 
> elapsed time was almost exactly 3 hours.   It might be interesting 
> to compare system components with faster/newer technology that 
> can improve on the 3 hour time significantly (surely the Seagate 
> Cheetah, IBM Ultrastar 2XP, and Quantum Atlas III are faster, 
> perhaps, a PPro w/ 512 KB is significantly better, or possibly 
> a Pentium II 266, although I suspect I/O is most of the time,
> not CPU compile time.  How about a dual Natoma-based PPro 200 
> system using the new SMP kernel-possibly better I/O overlap,
> although, possibly it would thrash the disk and actually slow
> down the build.  Maybe some SCSI controller is faster than
> the Buslogic, or maybe not?)
> 
> So, any configurations out there significantly faster than 3 hours
> for a "make world" of 3.0-current?  I doubt if any of those systems
> use EIDE disks, but, I have been wrong many times before.  Results?

Guess again :) My system P6@233/64M/2*4G Maxtor EIDE does a 
make world from -current in some 65 mins (that is 1 hour 5 mins) :)

So tell me again that SCSI is faster :)

	"the times they are achangeing" 

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