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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: IOZONE results (benchmarks in general) Message-ID: <1992Nov11.072741.26689@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <1992Nov10.024031.9467@tfs.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:27:41 GMT Lines: 32 julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: >Below are the results of an IOZONE auto. [ interesting text deleted - NB.] >This leads me to 2 conclusions: >if not all information is given, benchmarks are dangerous. Right (how about disk access times ?) >and >my driver is not as slow as eoahmad said it was 8-) No. I like the speed, in fact. I compiled (a real world application !!?) the X11R5 stuff, i.e. make World in the "mit" directory. It took 2.5 hours. A friend told me that this takes 7.5 hour on some HP 73x system, I am happy with the SCSI driver, and another very important question for me is: How do you backup a 540 MB IDE disk, e.g. those from Conner ? Is somebody (eoahmad ?) using about 400 3.5" high-density floppies ? OK, with 30% mean compression-rate 280 floppies should do it :-) That's were all the time goes (sitting and waiting to finish the backup) :-) I know that there are AT-Bus streamers, however, at least here in Switzerland, they are twice as much as SCSI streamers ! This way, a real IDE solution is still more expensive, at least for me. [ text (benchmark results) deleted - NB.] Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt