Re: Cheetah vs. UDMA: Bonnie says UDMA is faster! why?

Mark Lehrer (edge@dux.raex.com)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:30:02 -0500 (EST)


> I don't trust bonnie, or any other benchmark at all. The drasitic
> changes you saw don't make sense. Could you TELL it was that much of
> a change? NO? Then it wasn't.

Yes, they do make sense. The system was never loaded, Bonnie was
the only "taxing" software I ran. Quadrupling the SCSI bus speed
did improve performance...

> Compare those to yours. Bonnie lies! All disk benchmarks are the
> spawn of Satan!

If you run the same benchmark on the same system; it is a good way to
tell if you are making any improvements and is valid.

However, once you start comparing benchmarks between different
systems, it gets very satanic - I'll agree there!

Mark

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