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From: tlm@pur-phy (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Performance tests, comments invited
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Date: 20 Oct 88 14:27:59 GMT
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> lots of nice juicy info.......

My big question is: If I have 800K+ bytes/sec raw speed (great!!!), but
this is done with I/O polling what happens with my over all system
perfomance. If this was a single tasking PC I would be mildly extatic, but
I don't want all my other processes to freeze while I suck in a 100K file!
Any one have experience with what happens to other processes and the
windowing system when you do this?

I'd really like to see 600K+ transfer rate and not have it kill system
performance! Shoot, I've just got a single floppy, I'd be happy with 200K
and good system performance!

tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu