Re: High lngspins - IDS 9.30 UC2

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:59:24 -0400, Andrew Hamm wrote: Thanks, Andrew. I have not noticed these problems in my own testing but this is Clarion City so... Definitely something to investigate going forward. Art S. Kagel > Art S. Kagel wrote: >> Andrew Hamm wrote: >>> >>> And anyway, striping is the enemy of performance on standard Intel systems >>> in these days of multi-multi-GB disks. It overloads the disk with too many >>> active access threads, which reduces performance to the minimum the disk can >>> offer instead of the maximum it can offer. That's typically a factor of >>> about 4:1. >> >> That requires further elucidation, Mark^H^H^H^HAndrew. Please!?! > > welllllll > > what follows, I have found does NOT apply to large funky highly-resourced disk > arrays like Clariions, however no "ordinary" hardware (ie using SCSI and raid > controllers) on Intel escapes the following principles. I know also that <Tons of great stuff SNIPPED>