From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 20: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE45D37B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 20:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shannon@daydream.shannon.net) Received: from [209.96.185.98] (helo=escape.shannon.net) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 152Oti-000Fqp-00; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:01:19 -0400 Received: from daydream (mail@daydream.shannon.net [192.168.1.10]) by escape.shannon.net (8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id f4N2VNh10074; Tue, 22 May 2001 22:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shannon by daydream with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 152OQk-0001Td-00; Tue, 22 May 2001 22:31:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:31:22 -0400 From: Shannon Hendrix To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Jason Andresen , "Albert D. Cahalan" , ccf@master.ndi.net, gordont@bluemtn.net, jkh@osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010522223120.C5012@widomaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Jason Andresen , "Albert D. Cahalan" , ccf@master.ndi.net, gordont@bluemtn.net, jkh@osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200105221816.f4MIGK1171051@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0AB4B1.78A0FB0A@mitre.org> <20010522212029.D2734@widomaker.com> <3B0B187D.47C98452@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B0B187D.47C98452@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:55:09PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:55:09PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > And just to get things worse... :-) the test must be made on the *same* > slice. If you configure two different slices, the one on the outer > tracks will be faster. I cannot verify that with my drive, but my largest is 18GB so maybe the difference is not as pronounced as on some newer drives like those (currently) monster 70GB drives. A 70GB IBM Ultrastar supposedly can physically outrun the internal electronics on the faster tracks. One review I read mentioned it as a problem, though I'm not sure why. In any case, I'm not quite that picky, and I would not think that postmark would benefit as much from being on the faster tracks. It's doing a lot more complicated things than just streaming data. -- "And in billows of might swell the Saxons before her,-- Unite, oh unite! Or the billows burst o'er her!" -- Downfall of the Gael ______________________________________________________________________ Charles Shannon Hendrix s h a n n o n @ w i d o m a k e r . c o m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message