Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:52:25 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb Message-ID: <354141D9.B1B9B36D@ibm.net> References: <199804242002.NAA01282@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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