On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:03:09PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Well, I have a machine running entirely from SSDs (two 32GB PATA > Samsungs, /boot is mirrored and the rest is striped). It still If you run the system entirely from a giant RAM disk (eg a gigabyte i-RAM) you'll rapidly discover that the disk isn't the biggest bottleneck > to run I'll be happy to try them. (Actually I'm only getting 57MB/s > reads from the striped volumes, so I think there's some tuning to do > as that looks like the single-drive speed.) Disk performance is usually quantified in ops/second. If you read linear data you'll get 57MB/sec. Go to true random access and performance is way way lower and hasn't improved much in the past ten years. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
