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- From: davidw@eplegal.UUCP (David Will)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,biz.sco.general
- Subject: Huge difference between AIX and SCO disk performance
- Keywords: scsi disk i/o performance
- Message-ID: <109@eplegal.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 21:50:24 GMT
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: Eagle-Picher Inc.
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- We have been comparing performance of single disk drive file systems under
- SCO Unix 3.2.4 with an EISA host adapter and AIX on RS6000/550. Simply put
- we've copied a file repetitely (12Mb) from one disk drive to another and
- found the AIX can copy this file at rates so much faster that it is remarkable.
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- The SCO machines show throughput ,0.6Mb/s, that indicates a bottleneck caused by
- the physical throughput of the disk. Aix copies the same file to
- similar type drives at a rate of about 5Mb/s. If a sync is done after
- these rates go down to 0.4 and 1.4Mb/s respectively. Does anyone know where
- AIX gets its huge performance boost. We used a 12Mb file so I don't think
- simple caching has anything to do with it, but maybe filesystem journaling and
- memory mapped files have something to do with it.
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- Thanks,
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- David Will
- Eagle-Picher Industries Inc.
- uunet!eplegal!davidw or davidw@eapi.com
- 513-629-2445
-