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Subject: Re: SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...
From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrowndenalics.net)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 19:36:30 CST

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Justin Robertson wrote:

>
> I Fail to see what that has to do with it...
> The entire point I'm trying to make here is that faster hardware is
> running slower, and I'd like to find out why. Now it's not a case of me
> having b0rked hardware, because I've had other people experience the same
> 'issue' on SCSI drives vs IDE drives. What specificly is it that is
> handled so differently between the two that would slow down mail transfer
> so intensly. The reason I say it's SCSI, is SCSI is the only common factor
> between some of the boxes this has been tried on and slow, and all the IDE
> boxes, even when I place an IDE drive into the machine in question, seem
> to yeild better performance...

        Check to see if sync update for that directory are on (if the
old machines was not...).

        Also, file system size, running the same (default) block and
inode size on a say 2GB and a 16GB partition is not the best idea. 

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