18 Nov
2005
18 Nov
'05
01:15
Greetings I downloaded AIM IX http://sourceforge.net/projects/aimbench (which untars to aim9 directory) from sourceforge to compare two motherboards against an older UltraSparcII,600MHz Solaris 8 system. As expected the two newer motherboards, both with SuSE 10.0, Athlon 64 3000+ were much faster except for three tests: Sync Random Writes, Sync Sequential Writes and Sync Disk Copies. In these three cases, the Sun board was 10 to 30 times faster. The Sun board has an EIDE ATA66 hard drive (40GB). Both Linux boards had 250GB SATA drives with 8MB buffers. The Linux FS is the default reiserfs. Before I drill any deeper, has anyone got any hints? TIA & Cheers