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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:25:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).
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> Note that using different slices may change your results.  All modern
> disks are faster near the outside (start of the disk) then the inside
> (I get more than 50% increase from inside to outside on one system).

I am thinking this will not be an issue, given that it is the performance
of the network interface which I am interested in :-)

-pete.