Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:31 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iozone: local vs nfs drives Message-ID: <199610172054.NAA12845@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Oct 96 15:18:37 -0400. <Pine.NEB.3.95.961017151743.452B-100000@spirit.ki.net>
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>On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>> > I would be interested in the answer to this, I see the same behaviour on
>> > a 2940/Quantum Atlas combo, although the numbers are quite a bit higher.
>> > In any case, given specifically the issue of news, where most activity is
>> > reading, this is disturbing.
>> IOZONE isn't the benchmark to use to determine news performance.
> Actually, both my IOZONE tests were done on "non-news" drives...
>they were done on /usr, on relatively dead systems..
Did you have tagged-command queuing enabled? According to my tests,
that will make a BIG difference, if you have decent drives.
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