Re: [Lse-tech] Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles gets large

Dave Hansen
2002-06-23T07:45:36Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:29:23AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> Yep, 2 independent busses per quad. That's a _lot_ of busses
>> when you have an 8 or 16 quad system. (I wonder who has one of
>> those... ;) Almost all of the server-type boxes that we play with
>> have multiple PCI busses. Even my old dual-PPro has 2.
>
> I thought I saw 3 PCI and 1 ISA per-quad., but maybe that's the
> "independent" bit coming into play.
>
Hmmmm. Maybe there is another one for the onboard devices. I thought
that there were 8 slots and 4 per bus. I could
be wrong. BTW, the ISA slot is EISA and as far as I can tell is only
used for the MDC.

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Dave Hansen
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