Re: RAID0 benchmark

[mingo]

On 3 Sep 1999, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> Bizarely, with rawio + lmbench, it's much slower (around 1/2 slower),
> with the CPU completely idle.

i suppose this is because the lack of fs readahead (which is utilized in
bonnie) doesnt feed the IO pipeline properly. Eg. the latency of SCSI
commands generates a necessery pipeline length of near 1 mbyte to keep
everything saturated.

-- mingo