Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi Alan et al.

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 19:08 +0000, Alan wrote:
> I'm not sure you'll get 50MB/sec sustained to work although you might
> with a good current drive used for nothing else, a linear stream of data
> (no seeking and file system overhead), and a non PCI controller (PCI
> Express, host chipset bus etc). 

That's Suspend2's usage pattern when given a whole partition, so I can
state without reservation you can get maximum throughput under those
circumstances, even with a PCI controller. Swsusp should do about the
same too.

Nigel

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