Some initial postmark numbers from a dual-PIII+ATA, 4.x and 6.x

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

>            tran sec  tran/s  creat/s  read/s  app/s  del/s  rd/s  wr/s
> 4.x UP     76        131     66       65      66     65     4.00  4.45
>            75        133     67       66      67     66     4.00  4.45

In case it's not already clear here: this box has UDMA33 ATA drives.  For
raw transfer rates, I get about 19-20MB/sec to various points on the disk. 
I'll try to run the same set of tests on a dual-Xeon box with UDMA100
drives.

Robert N M Watson