Subject: Re: Speeding up netatalk
From: John L Grantham (john@grantham.com)
Date: Sat Apr 15 2000 - 10:14:40 EDT
At 13:51 Uhr +1200 15.04.2000, Simon Buchanan wrote:
>>Just thought it would be fun to compare the two. Of course, the
>>9500 gets trounced by that monster of yours, but it's not too
>>shabby... :-)
>
>From netfinity 3000 with 128MB and RAID 2x 9.1GB IBM SCSI 3:
>
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.06 seconds =120.75 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.33 seconds =19.22 MB/sec
>
>5 x Macs all get 9+MB/sec read and write transfer rate.
>
>As Marcus said... it really does come down to motherboard/disk
>spees, not the proccessor (or thou it helps im sure:)
Yeah, the main brake on my 9500 is undoubtedly the hard drive (narrow
SCSI). It handles Perl and PHP content very well, actually,
especially considering the computer's age and type. I could stick a
Ultra SCSI card in there and pump it up, but somehow the idea of
doing that to a computer that only sits there for testing my websites
seems like a waste. ;-)
Of course, once I get that bundle of T1s in my bathroom, maybe I'll
spring for a UW-SCSI card on the thing. ;-)
I'd be curious to see benchmarks from others with netatalk on other
older hardware, just for more realistic comparisons...so far y'all
all seem to have the computer equivalent of monster trucks. I've just
got an old Pinto. ;-)
Though I like to think of it as a used Jaguar instead.
cya
John
--John Grantham | Dipl.-Designer (FH) | Homepage http://surf.to/multimedia | Linux for Macs: http://www.maclinux.de/
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