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SubjectRe: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size?
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:25:21PM -0400, Nat Lanza wrote:
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
>
> > > frames per second. This means a sustained rate of roughly 10MB per
> > > second. Lossy compression would falsify the results and is thus not
> >
> > Thats about the bandwidth of a disk
>
> Er, what? That's less than half the bandwidth of a good
> top-of-the-line SCSI disk these days; look at the spec sheets for
> something like a Seagate Cheetah -- the spec sheet at
>
> http://www.seagate.com/disc/pdf/cheetah18_36.pdf
>
> claims a transfer rate of 18-28 Mbytes/sec.

Hmmm ... how long this stays at this value for a 2 Gig file
read or write at *once*?


Werner

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