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#1.3 ?

    20-Sep-88 20:53:05
Sb: #12286-#1.3 ?
Fm: Lloyd W. Dull III 74555,736
To: Larry Rosenman 73547,3201
Larry, I ran some tests with MaxTransfer and settled on a value of 20000. Diskperf has 4 read/write speed tests at the end – 512 bytes, 4K, 8K and 32K bytes. MaxTransfers greater than 10000 only affected the last test (32K), the rest (first 3 tests) were identical. MaxTransfer = 255 was the slowest, with a max speed in the 32K test of about 85K/second. My point was that the 512 byte test topped out at about 65/second – even when the 32K test was showing 238K/second. And ACTUAL LOAD times were less than the 65K/second. So the figures we've seen bandied about ARE a bit misleading. But the system IS snappier with 1.3. Lloyd