In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
>  Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  
>  databank.xxxxx 300M 18877  91 22440  71 11985  77 20317  75 30745  68 

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You have a 150MB (roughly) machine?

>  processor and 1 GB of 400 MHz DDR2 RAM on i386 4.0-release.

Oh, nope.

>  if there is anything further that i can do to up the write and read 
>  speeds of these drives besides what i've mentioned above, please let me 
>  know.

Use a larger test case to test your hypothesis.

>  using 4256 buffers containing 53764096 bytes (52504K) of memory

So, out of your 300MB test, 52MB was likely cached in various ways.


That being said, svnd/vnd devices have not really been optimized for
speed.  They are there and work, but could likely stand to be changed
and developed significantly.

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