parameters on CDC Wren IV, Adaptec 1542b

[Larry Snyder]

bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>Thanks for the feedback Larry.  What utility are you using to do 
>your benchmarking?

We have a couple of benchmarking tools here on nstar - one of
which is a copy of what was used in Byte a year or so ago..

>I'm a little uncertain about the "buffer ratios" -- I didn't see any
>explanation of it in the lenghy aha1542 manual -- do you have anything
>that describes them?  My "largest" disk IO activity is news processing

Nope - I just tweaked and benched, tweaked and benched, etc..  

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