Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:27:58 +0200 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size? |
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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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