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SubjectRe: Linux on AMD K6
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In article <19970710123233.38080@test.legislate.com> you wrote:
: Vadim E. Kogan <vadim@vadim.biz-net.net> wrote:
: > 2. SCSI doesn't make big difference if you have enougth RAM

: The impact of IDE on a web server with enough RAM isn't latency
: or transfer rate -- it's cpu lossage. With a typical IDE setup,
: you can drop packets from this.

And that only happens if you have not configured the harddrive to either

A. Use DMA

B. allow interrupts during transfer (hdparm command)

IDE is faster and more stable than SCSI especially with modern motherboards.

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