On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:06:53 -0400, Douglas Gilbert
<dgilbert@interlog.com> said:
> You may like to look at:
> http://www.torque.net/sg [and follow the "timings" link]
> to get a feeling for what direct versus indirect IO is
> costing you. Reasonably standard i386 hardware can get
> you 20 to 30 MB/sec throughput using "indirect IO".
Given that we have clocked reasonably standard i386 hardware with fast
disks at 50 or 60 MB/sec through the filesystem, I doubt that the
indirect IO is the bottleneck in those cases.
--Stephen
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