From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 24 19:08:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20357 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20340 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-240.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.240]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA25246; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:07:30 GMT Message-ID: <354141D9.B1B9B36D@ibm.net> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:52:25 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb References: <199804242002.NAA01282@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > These are generally 4 slots and a bridge with 4 more behind. Depending > on the configuration and the hardware in question, more slots is not > necessarily better. I think I agree, although more intelligent controllers on a 132MB bus set is preferable to more disks on an 80MB bus. I think Marc's right in that net throughput appears to be an even bigger issue. Say 2 DPT's, okay. Now, as to the disks themselves. Does anybody know if there's a disk that's intelligent enough to modify it's cacheing algorithms for small-file transfers as opposed to large file work? It seems to me that everybody's jumping on this so-called streaming-video bonanza that's going to be here Real Soon Now, and that's strictly a read-ahead situation. I have had good results with IBM disks, but I've never benched them and I don't know much of the insides. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message