Re: suggestions for udb

[Praveen Srinivasan <psrin0 pop uky edu>]

Part of the problem may be your hard drive. Stats for a 4GB, 128kb cache disk
were mentioned, but newer drives have upwards of 2MB of cache, not to mention
being capable of Ultra DMA 2. That can make a big difference.

Praveen Srinivasan

Chris Kloiber wrote:

> Danilo Godec wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion alpha is not an option for low-end market. That means
> > anything comparable to Celeron machines (or even PII/III) is way too
> > expensive on alpha platform.
> >
> > This is especially due to bad IDE support (I have a 164SX), which means
> > you need to get expensive SCSI card (cause el'cheapo cards don't work well
> > with Alpha/Linux), SCSI hard disk, cdrom, burner etc. if you want to enjoy
> > speed. Each of items listed are notably more expensive then their IDE
> > counterparts. Not to mention 'special' RAM needed by Alpha - I can't buy
> > RAM like that in just any computer shop. At least no here in my country.
> > :)
> >
> > High-end market shows a different picture, though. In price range over 3k
> > US$ (I'm only guessing, this margin could be different) you get more
> > power/buck with an Alpha as Xeons also get shamelessly expensive. :)
> >
> >    D.
>
> Yeah, the IDE sucks on the 164SX in a stock kernel. However a kernel
> patch is available which makes it tolerable (~800% increase in
> throughput measured by hdparm without tweaking) you can find the patch
> for any recent kernel at:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
>
> Chris Kloiber
>
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