[rescue] can you explain these SCSI numbers?

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:25:56AM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> > Why does the SS5 beat the SS10?
> 
> > cache issues.  Platform was OpenBSD, which uses just 5% of RAM as
> > buffer for the filesystem.
> 
> The SS5 beats the SS10 because it has more RAM. And OBSD is not flushing
> out dirty pages, thus recently requested information is still in RAM.

Uh, no, the SS10 has 192MB, the SS5 has 32MB.
 
> Time to use a disk-level benchmark -- not OS....

I did use a 200MB filesize on the test benchmark to ensure that
caching would be less likely to influence results.

Cordially
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