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If your running linux you are hitting MEMROY which make it hard to do 
better then
the memory system.

At 09:03 AM 5/4/2001 +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>Yes, it's only memory bandwidth, not system bandwidth.
>
>I know how to do it... build a huge solid-state RDRAM disk array. ;-)
>
>-- Juha