On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Raid5 write performance of the celeron is almost 50% better
> > than the k6-2.
> > Is this b/c of mmx (as james manning suggested) or b/c of the FPU?
> NOT because of MMX, as the K6-2 has MMX instructions. It could be because
> of the parity calculations, but you'd need to do a test on a single disk to
> make sure that it doesn't have anything to do with the CPU/memory chipset or
> disk controller. Can you try with a single drive to determine where things
> should be?
The write performance roughly matches the memspeed benchmark data I have.
http://www.anime.net/~goemon/memspeed/
I dont know if the celeron bus is wider or if it does r/w combining
better.
-Dan
