From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 9 17:23: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5312537B8E8 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:22:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01872; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:23:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003100123.RAA01872@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Waite, Michael" Cc: "'Peter Jeremy'" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:15:07 EST." <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2CEA@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:23:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Peter is right Mike, > That card that you have only has 4 megs of cache. Assuming that you are > running Tru64 you can get much better results with LSM. > > Also you can then crank up the ADVFS cache% to 30 . > > But never mind............ you are doing this for FreeBSD development so I > will just shut up now. Ok, I will comment on performance. 8) This is a terrible old card, but it ought to work, and making it work ought to have been easy. I guess this is what I get for trying to get stuff done with old hardware. 8) At any rate, now that I have the array configured I should be OK. With any luck I won't toast it... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message