gbde initialization

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Apr 10 04:10:51 PDT 2003


In message <000f01c2ff4e$2a1d7220$3d2c0c80 at quenya>, "John Stockdale" writes:
>About how quickly should gbde initialize a storage array (say for
>example, a 700GB ATA-133 Raid 5 array managed by a 3Ware 7500
>controller) on a SMP 2.0GHz Xeon box?
>
>I assume the initialization time is bounded by the random library used
>to generate the psudo-random whitener, but I wasn't sure what library is
>used or how fast that library should run on a 2.0 Xeon.

Hard to tell, I don't suffient points in my data-set yet.

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