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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: disk IO
Date: 20 Jul 1995 05:53:55 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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To: larry@rn.com
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larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder) wrote:
>I'm running Linux 1.2.11 and am considering switching to freeBSD
>to install the netscape server
>
>what is the disk IO on EIDE drives like with FreeBSD as compared
>against Linux?
I don't know what Linux i/o rates are like, but with my setup, using a
Kouwell (i.e. Cheap) VL-Bus EIDE controller and WD Caviar disk drives
(420 and 850 meg) on my 486dx2/66, I get 1.3 Mb/sec read and 980 Kb/sec
write from iozone.
>How stable is the PPP (dialout) -
It's been working great for me for 8 months now. I've never had a crash
while PPP was running, and never a glitch. I'm only one user, of course,
so I may not have stressed the link all that much, althouh I've tried. ;^)
>and who has the lastest release of the CD rom?
Walnut Creek CD-ROM. Try mailto:info@cdrom.com, or check out the FreeBSD
Home Page at http://WWW.FreeBSD.ORG
Best of luck. I hope you like FreeBSD as much as I do.
--
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