From: | Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com> |
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To: | Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: File Systems Compared |
Date: | 2006-12-06 20:24:09 |
Message-ID: | 457726E9.50607@janestcapital.com |
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Luke Lonergan wrote:
>Brian,
>
>On 12/6/06 8:40 AM, "Brian Hurt" <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com> wrote:
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>>But actually looking things up, I see that PCI-Express has a theoretical 8
>>Gbit/sec, or about 800Mbyte/sec. It's PCI-X that's 533 MByte/sec. So there's
>>still some headroom available there.
>>
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>See here for the official specifications of both:
> http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pcix_20/
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>Note that PCI-X version 1.0 at 133MHz runs at 1GB/s. It's a parallel bus,
>64 bits wide (8 bytes) and runs at 133MHz, so 8 x 133 ~= 1 gigabyte/second.
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>PCI Express with 16 lanes (PCIe x16) can transfer data at 4GB/s. The Arecas
>use (PCIe x8, see here:
>http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcie-sata.htm) so they can do 2GB/s.
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>- Luke
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Thanks. I stand corrected (again).
Brian
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