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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to get better SCSI performance? [FreeBSD 1.1R/AHA1542Cf]
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 18:29:35 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> writes:
 
>Um, well, if he's getting 1/2 disk throughput with his filesystem,
>he's not getting his money's worth.  I'm gettting *very* near my
>disk's max tested speed with Linux.
 
Versions of *BSD w/o clustering will probably give only 1/2 of disk
performance on writes.  I *normally* get .95 or better of my drivers
performance thru the filesystem on FreeBSD on both reads and writes.
 
Apparently there is a difference in his drives configuration.
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com