[rescue] OS recommendations for Sun Fire V210

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Jun 30 20:09:51 CDT 2010


On 06/30/10 20:34, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
>> On 6/30/2010 7:14 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>> 40MB/sec is 320Mbps is 1/3 of GbE or so.
>>>    
>> Sure - but if we are talking about Ultra 320 scsi, thats 320 MB/s or
>> 2560Mb/s, not 320Mbps. Of course, 320MB/s is theoretical.... - so I'd
>> expect about 75% of that rate.
> 
> I think the limiting factor (in this thread) is the sustained write
> speed of the tape unit however.

Indeed.  Which won't even sync up at 320.  It'll sync at 160, and fill
its buffer at that speed, but won't write anything close to that to tape.


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