Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Performance and SCSI
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Sun Apr 23 2000 - 17:33:06 EEST
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Karl JH Millar wrote:
>
> I'm sure that the low latencies and large buffers on your drives don't hurt
> any either :)
>
> The upshot of this is that for a SCSI drive, good performance is easy to get
> irrespective of how you do your I/O. For IDE drives, the kernel and app need
> to work together to try to do what the adapter is giving you automatically.
Yes, and seems that the FREEBSD folks already found it out how to do it,
I was simply amazed at the absolutely flat hdrbench diagrams.
for those yho missed my previous post: here is the graph:
http://www.linuxdj.com/hdrbench/freebsd-18-18.gif
Hopefully linux will catch up in this area.
Benno.
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