DEQNA

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Date: Mon Feb 24 22:59:00 2003

> My fileserver will spew data a good bit
> faster than the DEQNA can process it.


You might be able to open that bottleneck up with a DELQA-M
M7516-YM, especially if you can get it running in Turbo Mode.





At 10:14 PM 2/24/03 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > Unfortunatly this is something that will have to wait for me to actually
> > find the time to do it :^( I'm really curious as to how much of a
> > difference in performance it would be possible to obtain with
> VMS. With VMS
> > you're dealing with ODS2, DECnet and the Clustering software, on Unix
> you've
> > got ffs (or whatever the filesystem BSD is using), TCP/IP and NFS. On the
> > downside, Unix tends to beat VMS at disk IO, still we're talking more the
> > difference between a RQDX3/RD54 combo vs. a nice fast more modern server
> > with SCSI (or IDE) disks.
>
> I'd say it's more the difference between the throughput of the DEQNA
>and the throughput of the RQDX3/RD54 than it is between the difference
>between MFM & modern SCSI. My fileserver will spew data a good bit
>faster than the DEQNA can process it. The Qbus ethernet is the
>bottleneck.
> No hurry, anyhow. It's mostly academic to me - the whine of the MFM
>drives makes SWMBO nuts. The choice to go network-based storage had the
>unexpected speed boost, but peace in the castle was/is the overriding
>factor....
>
> Doc
Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 22:59:00 GMT