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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CCD question - URGENT
Date: 20 Jun 1996 17:17:19 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Tony Griffiths <tonyg@onthenet.com.au> writes:

>Rashid,

>Btw, any perls of wisdom on interleave factors, newfs -b -f -i ...
>parameters et al to use to make a good (if anything can be good in the
>context of news!?) filesystem  for news would be appreciated.  There

I've heard that 1 cylinder is a good interleave factor for news...
Here are the results I got from 2 Connor FilePros with various
interlave factors. The results are from iozone, so they are for
sequential file access - not really a good example for news.
The interleave factor is in sectors.

			Same Controler		Different Controller
 	Interleave	W/R Speed (MB/s)	W/R Speed (MB/s)
 	8		1
 	16		1.6	5.4		
 	32		2.1	5.8
 	64		2.9	6.7
 	128		4.5	7.3		5.4	7.5
 	256		5.3	7.2		5.4	7.6
 	512		5.9	7.1		5.9	7.2
 	1024		6.1	6.8		6.1	6.8
(1cy)	1044		6.3	6.7		6.3	7.0
 	2048		6.4	6.5		6.5	6.5
(2cy)	2088		6.2	6.5		6.2	6.6
 	4096		5.7	6.4		5.8	6.4

	David.