Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting article on SCSI vs. IDE
From: Jussi Laako (jussi_AT_jlaako.pp.fi)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 21:19:03 EET
Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> There are many situations with intense disk i/o that would never show
> this behaviour, because their interaction with the buffer cache and
> VM in general is different than the recording+playback behaviour of
> something like ardour. My mini disk benchmarks get the same kind of
> performance that you describe (modulo a slower disk drive).
My benchmark simulated audio recording to disk. Writing 2 GB files (really
stupid Linux limitation), write only, no reading at all.
Now I just need some 64-bit platform to be able to memorymap raw 80 GB disk
devices... :)
- Jussi Laako
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