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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: IDE faster than Mips SCSI disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.050504.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Nov6.033942.21194@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <MAD.92Nov7220823@amber.math.keio.ac.jp> <k2.721260853@woodstock> <6215@tuegate.tue.nl> <k2.721304278@woodstock>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:05:04 GMT
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- In article <k2.721304278@woodstock>, k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
- > tgcpwd@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) writes:
- ...
- > I did have VMS Posix running on my VAX, and it gives indeed better
- > results. I'm seeing results in the 200 - 300 kBytes/sec range.
- > (A little MVIII, with SMD disks, platter rate around 2Mb/sec).
- > I did not know how well the Posix environment did emulate Unix
- > system calls, so I think native VMS programs with their ugly $QIO
- > interface will see better rates.
- >
- Yep, but you will need to specify contiguous files, lock the buffers into your
- working set, run at a high real-time priority... Them you should get xfer rates
- that aproach the platter speed of the drive.
- On a Q-bus RSX ( PDP-11 ) system years ago I could pull >2MB/sec off 3 Fugitsu
- ESDI drives. This was mainly due to defered writes in the controller cache.
- The RSX case was multiple tasks BTW, not a single read stream. The best IO with-
- out a cache is ~1.1MB/sec from 1.2MB/sec SMD drives, dual ported to an 11/70.
- Again this was multiple streams.
-
- A VMS system will also show how bad fragmentation can be to performance. Just
- remove the contig bit from the create and turn it lose on a near full busy
- disk!
-
- All this only proves that we are infact measuring everything EXCEPT disk speed!!
-
- ~Paul
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