Re: SCSI write caching

[Marc SCHAEFER]

C S Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The tests were actually faster with write cache turned off.  I'm not
> sure I really expected it to be faster, but I was surprised that
> cache slowed things down.

The write cache must be taken from somewhere, ie less read cache.

Caching is best when I/O size (on SCSI bus) matches one of the
cache segment length. 

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