Re: disk throughput

Matthias Andree
2001-11-05T12:24:10Z

On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Numbers. The machine has 768 megs; the disk is IDE with a two meg cache.
> The workload consists of untarring, tarring, diffing and removing kernel
> trees. This filesystem is 21 gigs, and has 176 block groups.

Does that IDE disk run with its write cache enabled or disabled?