Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:47:04 07/15/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 15:27:41, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Bandwidth isn't really the issue here. Latency is. > >The problem is that you are pulling tiny little bits of information from all >over the disk. The SCSI drive spins faster, so it has a lower seek time. I disagree. Often, when I view the statistics for two chess engines that have been playing a long time in the endgame, I see that hundreds of gigabytes have been read by both engines. 99.99% of that I/O is from EGTB reads. So I think that the transfer rate is at least as important, if not more important, than the seek time. But I have no way to benchmark the differences in time for the different stages of a read, so I cannot be sure.
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