Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!husc6!cca!mirror!xanth!kent From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fish Disk benchmark result Message-ID: <1638@xanth.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 22:36:51 EDT Article-I.D.: xanth.1638 Posted: Tue Jul 21 22:36:51 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 04:06:57 EDT References: <337@palladium.UUCP> Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 16 Summary: Is that the best we can do? Why? In article <337@palladium.UUCP> nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber) writes: >[..] Fish Disk (Rick Spanbauer) benchmark results for the 40MB Pal Jr. disk >[...] > Read 32768 byte file: 60963 bytes/sec > Write 32768 byte file: 24499 bytes/sec No complaint against the Pal Jr., but just generically; with the state of the art in hard disk file transfer in the multiple megabytes per second range, why are we still down in the 10K's of bytes? Speeds this low make disk based virtual memory a real loser (although at today's prices, extended address space ramdisk looks like a real possibility for virtual memory on PC's with limited personal memory, like the Amiga). To put it another way, where are the bottlenecks now? Kent, the man from xanth.