From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 7 17:52:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA11491 for current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@tibet-30.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11433 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00638; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:51:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:51:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: George Michaelson cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) In-Reply-To: <199708071055.UAA03384@broon.off.connect.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, George Michaelson wrote: > Ok so news at 11 it isn't but I thought I'd add some figures to the pot. > > single-user 32Mb P100, fuji 1.2Gb drive, Asus mainboard with 512k cache. > > looks like 20%+ speedup across the board. Definately worth it. > > next stop, DMA. Not to be rude, but you'd probably get an equall great increase if not more so by switching to SCSI, along with reduced cpu usage. - alex