Thanks to you and Scott Sharkey for responding.
I'm not trying to play dumb or anything. I realize it's newer technology
which has higher maximums. I guess I'm really just surprised that a
controller/disk combination which is supposed to have a maximum rate of
80MB/sec only gets 13 MB/sec in practice :(. I paid way too much for that
stuff when I bought it too :)
Also, I can't say the new machine "feels" any faster despite the increase
in disk performance (as well as jump from 500 to 800mhz (athlons)). I
realize I don't exactly tax any of my machines though..
Alright, one more stupid question. When lilo is loading the kernel and you
get a message followed by a number of dots ......, why would the new box
do this step much slower than the old? I thought this was when the kernel
was getting loaded from disk, so I thought it would/should be faster on
the new machine. It is a *lot* slower. Both are running RH7.0
thanks
charles
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Charles posted the following, which I have truncated for brevity:
> Quote on:
> /snip/
> But, what really surprised me was
> the difference in beformance between my two scsi systems - one brnad new,
> and the other not much more than a year old.
> "old" scsi setup:
> adaptec 2940U2W
> 2 x 9GB IBM (?deskstar? DDRS-39130D) LVD drives
> I'm pretty sure I have the bios set at 80MB/sec (verified w/ /proc/scsi/*)
> Timing buffered disk reads: 12.85 MB/sec both disks
<snip>
> Your new SCSI card and drives _are_ twice as fast.
> Why should you be surprised? (Wish I could afford that
> setup!--drool--) --doug
sorry, wasn't trying to rub it in :)
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