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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.
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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.