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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD performance
Date: 6 May 1995 00:00:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <31b005c1@rcogate.rco.qc.ca> <27APR95.00652570.0321@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <3ob56l$c18@shell1.best.com> <3ob5tt$ebp@shell1.best.com>
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In article <3ob5tt$ebp@shell1.best.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
>    Reading through the filesystem, I get a consistant 4.1 MBytse/sec
>    from EACH disk simultaniously, or 8.2 MBytes/sec aggregate.  I
>    think I can safely say that I've never come this close to maxing
>    out a SCSI bus with cheap hardware.

Heh, just wait until we release the striping code we've got working in
sort-of-ALPHA test right now.. :-)

Thanks for posting these benchmarks.  It's nice to know that our SCSI
code is working this well in the field!

						Jordan