CompuServe Messages

Well, now I'm confused. I just did the whole thing over again and this is what I got -this- time: ————————————————————————- 9.RAM:> type DiskSpeed.ResultsCache DiskSpeed 3.0 – Copyright (c) 1989,90 by MKSoft Development Device: work: Test Intensity: High Performance Stress: CPU Contention & DMA Contention 54 Files/s Create 202 Files/s Open/Close 1422 Files/s Scan 286 Files/s Delete 734 Seek/Read Buffer Size 512 4096 32768 262144 ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— Bytes/s Create 320519 1675104 3303820 3962146 Bytes/s Write 357199 1997659 4277855 5052902 Bytes/s Read 366715 2049125 4194304 5413824 9.RAM:> type DiskSpeed.ResultsnoCache DiskSpeed 3.0 – Copyright (c) 1989,90 by MKSoft Development Device: work: Test Intensity: High Performance Stress: CPU Contention & DMA Contention 5 Files/s Create 30 Files/s Open/Close 739 Files/s Scan 131 Files/s Delete 707 Seek/Read Buffer Size 512 4096 32768 262144 ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— Bytes/s Create 27585 94636 126829 135830 Bytes/s Write 29143 112663 163021 177889 Bytes/s Read 164987 311801 303231 314572 ————————————————————————- So color me confused. The PowerCache-less results this time were higher than the cached AND cache-less results last time. What changed? Nothing. I left the machine on, didn't quit any applications, and went out to see a movie. When I came back I got some mail here and then ran the test while I took a shower. I am totally baffled. In addition, I don't know how to translate the results to real-world performance. I just loaded Final Writer and it STILL takes about 7 beats to load. So no change there. And while I don't know that all reads and writes are 512bytes, I doubt most of them are 262144bytes long either. So how do things work in mixed situations? ACK! Paul