From: Alan Cox (iiitac@swan.pyr)
Date: 08/21/93


From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 14:51:51 GMT

In article <1993Aug20.151357.2510@SonOSam.execnet.com> soup@SonOSam.execnet.com (John R. Campbell) writes:
>Linux's performance is EXTREMELY respectable against $CO. I'm not even
>counting Bang for the Buck, either.
>
The byte filesystem benchmarks on our main work machine (Adaptec 1542B) are about
even between SCO and Linux running ext2fs. This disappointed me because
SCO _isn't_ that hot on filesystem peformance. On the other hand Linux is
better than a top end HP workstation at pipe read/write throughput!

Alan
iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk