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Re: 160+ - packetized SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Fri Feb 25 01:42:13 2000
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:45:54 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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To: Mark Veteikis <mark@iphase.com>
Cc: Robert Frey <bobfrey@home.com>,
Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
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Mark Veteikis wrote:
>
> > Intel would release a Linux version of IOMETER. It's a great measurement tool. I've
> > sent them several e-mails asking them to port it to Linux at iometer@intel.com -
> > maybe if others would to it would help. Also all disk access is raw there is no
>
> I specifically asked Intel about this port, and when it was going to be done.
> This at an Intel Developers Forum about a year ago, in their "We back Linux"
> marketing push. Being in a public forum they probably spoke a little too early
> and stated that the Linux port was coming.
>
> The problem with I see with IOMETER is that if Intel ports it to Linux and
> a naive user starts running benchmarks on identical hardware with both NT and
> Linux, somebody's feelings might just get hurt. :)
IOMETER won't be on linux for a while still yet. It relies heavily upon both
Raw I/O and Async I/O. We don't currently support those two together.
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