Subject: Re: Suggestions on CCD Interleave (also, large-block large-cyl U
To: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/1999 20:52:54
Does this apply to CCDs with unequally-sized chunks on disks
of differing geometries?
On 31-Jan-99 Alexis Rosen wrote:
# I did some benchmarks a couple of years ago to see what would work best
# for a traditional news system (ie, lots of small-file writes and reads).
#
# To my surprise, really big interleaves were best, at least for reads. And,
# like Curt, I saw that non-power-of-two sizes were a win, though I didn't
# figure out why or pursue that as strongly as I should have.
--*greywolf;
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