Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:51:50 04/30/04
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On April 30, 2004 at 16:28:53, Peter Skinner wrote: >On April 30, 2004 at 16:25:29, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > > >>>Current egtb cache caches compressed blocks. So this is a moot point. >> >>Unfortunately no. That is in my "TODO" list. >> >>Thanks, >>Eugene >> >>>Decompression is _not_ the bottleneck. From actual testing rather than >>>guessing... > >I would have to figure the biggest bottleneck would be the hard drive speed, and >cpu speed. > >I know when I switched to 10,000 rpm drives I noticed quite an improvement over >the 7200 rpm. When I got my 15k rpm drive it was even better. > >Peter For 10K to 15K all you see is reduced average rotational latency.. Max transfer speed doesn't change. Of course the drives are not as "dense" either, usually being 1/4 (or worse) the size of the biggest 10K drives.
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