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From: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Tuning Linux for high-speed disk subsystems
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:56:19 +0100
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The heroinewarrior.com (Broadcast 2000) guys came to the following with the
Tyan Thunder K7 (2 x 1.0 GHz Athlon MP) dual channel U160 (Adaptec) and
RAID 0. http://heroinewarrior.com/athlon.php3

[-]
 As for performance our experiences are biased because this system is almost 
exclusively used for video software development not games like most. It needs 
a reliable operating system like Linux and very fast media storage drives.

 The inverse telecine, a grueling memory excercise which takes 3 hours on a 
dual PIII 933 and 2 hours on a dual Alpha, takes about 2 hours on the dual 
Athlon. 

Our 100 Gig SCSI raid, consisting of 6 15,000 rpm drives on the motherboard's 
two SCSI 160 channels gives a full 110MB/sec read and write with RAID 0. With 
RAID chunks set to 1MB the write accesses go to 160MB/sec and read accesses 
go to 90MB/sec sustained. This system would make a good motion capture tool. 
Previous Intel attempts at onboard disk I/O would give 50MB/sec.
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-Dieter
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