Re: Two questions about performance

1999-07-14 Thread Juan Piernas Cánovas
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > > 100 --> 200 is 100% improvement, but 200 --> 100 is only 50% reduction. I know. :-D. -- D. Juan Piernas Cánovas Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN) Tel.:

RE: Two questions about performance

1999-07-12 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
100 --> 200 is 100% improvement, but 200 --> 100 is only 50% reduction. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Two que

Re: Two questions about performance

1999-07-12 Thread Juan Piernas Cánovas
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Juan Piernas > > Cánovas > > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 4:04 PM > > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1.- Why are RAID-1 writes slower than writes to one of the > > RAID-1 disks?. Software overhead?. Hardware problems?. >

Re: Two questions about performance

1999-07-12 Thread Theron J.Lewis
I just rolled a patch for linux-2.2.10, but, even though it's less than 100k compressed, I hesitate to post it to the news group since I am not the official keeper of the code (nor do I wish to be). I am currently using a kernel compiled from my patch and it seems to work fine. I have documented

RE: Two questions about performance

1999-07-12 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Juan Piernas > Cánovas > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 4:04 PM > > I have two questions: > > 1.- Why are RAID-1 writes slower than writes to one of the > RAID-1 disks?. Software overhead?. Hardware problems?. For every write request, two physical writes ar

Re: Two questions about performance

1999-07-11 Thread Stefan Paletta
Juan Piernas Cánovas wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > 1.- Why are RAID-1 writes slower than writes to one of the > RAID-1 disks?. Software overhead?. Hardware problems?. All data has to be written twice, what, unless someone invents multicast SCSI, has to happen successively. Stefan

Two questions about performance

1999-07-10 Thread Juan Piernas Cánovas
Hi all! I have two questions: 1.- Why are RAID-1 writes slower than writes to one of the RAID-1 disks?. Software overhead?. Hardware problems?. 2.- Why are RAID-1 reads slightly better than reads from one of the RAID-1 disks?. If a RAID-1 is made up of two disks, I've got two copies of data and