Date: 09 Aug 1997 00:54:13 +0200 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) Message-ID: <877mdw2smi.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: "John S. Dyson"'s message of Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:27:18 -0500 (EST) References: <87k9hw723z.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
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>> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 23:27:18 -0500 (EST), "John S. Dyson"
>> <toor@dyson.iquest.net> said:
JSD> This is the result of my "slow" recent, but not the latest, greatest
JSD> IDE drive (WD 4GB drive.):
JSD> Command overhead is 88 usec (time_4096 = 348, time_8192 = 607)
JSD> transfer speed is 1.57828e+07 bytes/sec
JSD> dd if=/dev/rwd1 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k
JSD> 1600+0 records in
JSD> 1600+0 records out
JSD> 104857600 bytes transferred in 10.881267 secs (9636525 bytes/sec)
JSD> This is the result of my Hawk, SCSI drive, with an NCR 815 interface:
JSD> Command overhead is 845 usec (time_4096 = 2071, time_8192 = 3297)
JSD> transfer speed is 3.34201e+06 bytes/sec
JSD> dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k
JSD> 1600+0 records in
JSD> 1600+0 records out
JSD> 104857600 bytes transferred in 27.336979 secs (3835742 bytes/sec)
Hmm, my NCR815 does:
~> dd if=/dev/rsd2 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 15.215823 secs (6891352 bytes/sec)
This is a seagate ST15150N.
But for Wide and/or Ultra SCSI you can expect better values.
More interesting is:
~> dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k&;dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k&
[2] 16410
[3] 16411
i.e. start two of them at the same time.
I get as result:
104857600 bytes transferred in 41.430049 secs (2530955 bytes/sec)
and
104857600 bytes transferred in 41.437855 secs (2530478 bytes/sec)
So still >5MB/s
What does IDE do in this case?
Another variant:
~> dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k&; sleep 2; dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k&
[2] 16415
[3] 16417
i.e. two of them, but with 2 seconds wait in between to make sure that
the two readers do not read blocks that are very close. Results are
much, much lower now:
104857600 bytes transferred in 113.343774 secs (925129 bytes/sec)
and
104857600 bytes transferred in 113.277994 secs (925666 bytes/sec)
Less than 1 MB/s total throughput remains! Quite dissapointing. I
wonder how IDE behaves in this case.
Anyway, apart from performance, I mainly use SCSI because I have 3
disks, a CD-ROM and a tapestreamer all on 1 cable, all with good
drivers and very reliable.
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