Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wilko@freebsd.org Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches for test / review Message-ID: <200003212314.PAA49627@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20000321224558.B3899@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Mar 21, 2000 10:45:58 pm"
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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:14:45PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:29:56AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > :> > > > > :> I would think that track-caches and intelligent drives would gain > > > > :> much if not more of what clustering was designed to do gain. > > > > : > > > > :Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger > > > > :I/Os is preferable over lots of very small I/Os. Or have I missed the point? > > > > > > > As long as you do not blow away the drive's cache with your big I/O's, > > > > and as long as you actually use all the returned data, it's definitely > > > > more efficient to issue larger I/O's. > > > > > > Prefetching data that is never used is obviously a waste. 256K might be a > > > bit big, I was thinking of something like 64-128Kb > > > > > > Drive caches tend to be 0.5-1Mbyte (on SCSI disks) for modern drives. > > > > Your a bit behind the times with that set of numbers for modern SCSI > > drives. It is now 1 to 16 Mbyte of cache, with 2 and 4Mbyte being the > > most common. > > Your drives are more modern than mine ;-) What drive has 16 Mb? Curious > here.. Seagates latest and greatest drives have a 4MB cache standard and an option for 16MB. These are 10K RPM chetta drives. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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