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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Subject: Re: overclocking 
Cc: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com, current@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 1997 15:22:58 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:49:52 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199706092222.PAA01036@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Satoshi Asami writes:
: However, I suggest you invest some money on SCSI drives before you
: even try overclocking.  (Get the 8ms/7,200rpm variants too --
: 10ms/5,400rpm won't do much better.)  The bottleneck of your machine
: during compilation should be the disks, not the CPU.

I found about a 250% improvement in speed going from a JAZ drive to a
10ms 5400rpm drive.

Warner