From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: TJ <systemloc@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:23:35 -0500
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:54 pm, Guy wrote:
> My linux system is a P3-500 with 2 CPUs and 512 Meg RAM.  My system is much
> faster than my network.  I don't know how your K6-500 compares to my
> P3-500. 

> My array gives about 60MB /second.

Now I'm extremely curious to know why your box does so much better than mine. 
Does the bus run at 100? 133? I'm guessing it's SDRAM, not DDR. Also, does it 
have a stock PCI bus, or something special?

TJ Harrell