On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:32:39 -0500 Bill Roberts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of
| read/write.

Which is why you make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs mount. Or at least we do
for sparc and mips stage and GRP builds... But then our build boxes have
eight or more gigs of RAM in them :)

| Show me any other way you can easily get the following
| numbers from hdparm:
| 
| /dev/md0:
|  Timing cached reads:   2868 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec
|   Timing buffered disk reads:  410 MB in  3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec

You can quite easily beat that with a straight fibrechannel setup.

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