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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: RA81 speeds (was Re: magtape, and what's hot)
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 15:13:30 EDT
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In article <161@auvax.UUCP> rwa@auvax.UUCP writes:
>Ok, I just did that.  "dump 0f /dev/null /dev/rra1h & iostat 1".
>...  Iostat reported average transfer rates in the 290 Kb/s to
>350 Kb/s range.  /dev/ra1h is an 8k/1k filesystem of about 360
>megabytes.  The main hack here was to set the burst-transfer counts
>higher.

I reran my statistics, since I think my old 130K/s max was with
the hardware default DMA burst rate.  On a Vax 8600 running
4.3BSD-beta-plus and the driver I posted in April, with the UDA50
on its own Unibus (the standard 8600 configuration), I got 150 to
220 KB/s.  We have 4K/512 filesystems, though, which explains the
difference.

>... how did you get your eagles to go so fast?

Well, I did use tunefs, but nothing else special.
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