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Subject: Re: SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...
From: Justin Robertson (zululinux.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 10:21:25 CST


  !! Why didn't I think of hardware level caching, agh! Thanks for the
input.

Justin Robertson
<zululinux.com>

On 6 Mar 2000, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:

> Den 05-Mar-00 03:39:45 skrev Justin Robertson følgende om "SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...":
> > Using fsstone and smtpstone, I've noticed some 'quirks' in performance.
> [cut low-end IDE disk is much faster than high-end SCSI disk on an
> otherwise identical system]
>
> Difficult to say. You are not giving much information about the disk
> subsystem, so this is pure speculation: The IDE disk has write-back cache
> enabled while the SCSI disk has it disabled.
>