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From: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Sparcstation 2 Write I/O
Message-ID: <157@edi386.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 12:45:05 GMT
References: <152@edi386.UUCP> <1991Feb18.054746.6723@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
Reply-To: eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Organization: J.M. Huber Corp., Edison,NJ
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In article <1991Feb18.054746.6723@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan) writes:
>eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi ) writes:
->In attempting to isolate any problem with the bench program, I shut off
->the write portion of the test, and read an old test file. The results
->were in the 1.2 - 1.4 MB range. Turning this around I changed the program
->to write only, and still averaged about 270 kb.
-
-We have an SS2 in the server config (internal 207MB disk and an external
-669MB (which doesn't have the same config as my Wren 6's, but well be for
-all I know, as Sun's disks are called SUN0207 & SUN0669 rather than Wren-X),
-a 150MB tape and CD-ROM.  The Sun chappie who installed it said that the
-internal 207MB disks are rather slow.  This may explain your results.
-

I've obtained the same results on the Internal drive and the External 
669, which comes up with the "Sync" message at boot time...


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