Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 07:06:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Volker Stolz <stolz@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Erratic SCSI-ZIP throughput Message-ID: <19991001070601.P496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990930134449.A15930@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Volker Stolz on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 01:44:49PM %2B0200 References: <19990909123919.A6053@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <19990912114608.U10106@freebie.lemis.com> <19990914151601.A378@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <19990915083028.A30655@freebie.lemis.com> <19990916153731.C9119@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <19990917101533.O55065@freebie.lemis.com> <19990930134449.A15930@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 13:44:49 +0200, Volker Stolz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:15:33AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> It depends on what transfers you're doing. If you're transferring .09 >>>> MB in 48 transfers, your average transfer size is about 2 kB. You >>>> should be able to do better than that on an average mix. >>> >>> I know, but what goes wrong? >> >> Nothing goes wrong. You're running into a basic limitation of the >> device. > > Okay, but why is it ten times slower than the average (Windows-?) > throughout? It should do about 800k/s. Even the Parallel-ZIPs I use > are faster -- using the vfat-fs on Linux. > Is the limitation due to the filesystem? I'd say the limitation is due to the files. Transfer bigger files and it should work better. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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