> This is on my good old Sparc station 4, a reasonably modern (low-end, > less than two years old) IBM scsi disk, and linux-2.2.19. I'd expect > more idle cycles on a modern machine and decent disk hardware, but I > don't have any around.
You need to consider the correlation between the cpu speed, the disk speed and the controller type. If the disk controller on the sparc is a really slow SCSI card, then the kernel will have offloaded some cpu operations at the cost of waiting longer for the operation to complete. Compare this to a newer system that uses the more cpu intensive IDE controller which, once set in motion, writes much faster. You are really comparing apples and avocados. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
