On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:21:40PM -0800, Troy Arnold wrote: > However, if I have an instance of vmware running, multimode helps > significantly: > Two tests both with vmware running, but idle. (avg of 5 runs) > > -m16 > Timing buffered disk reads: = ~ 28.32 MB/sec > -m0 > Timing buffered disk reads: = ~ 23.07 MB/sec > > More important than numbers -- on a purely subjective level, -m16 helps > "a lot" with system interactivity if I have the guest OS copy a bunch of > mp3's.
this is interesting. I hadn't done interactive tests while comparing the performance... if I could find some interactive performance test it would be nice to compare the -m options again. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
