Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles gets large

Andreas Dilger
2002-06-23T04:34:59Z

On Jun 22, 2002 22:02 -0600, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Griffiths, Richard A wrote:
>
> > I should have mentioned the throughput we saw on 4 adapters 6 drives was
> > 126KB/s. The max theoretical bus bandwith is 640MB/s.
>
> This is *NOT* correct. Assuming a 64bit 66Mhz PCI bus your MAX is
> 503MB/sec minus PCI overhead...

Assuming you only have a single PCI bus...

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger