FIFO

Hi,

Look in this (-fifostats -time):

star: fifo had 438235 puts 591 gets.
star: fifo was 22 times empty and 35 times full.
star: fifo held 125829120 bytes max, size was 134217728 bytes
star: 591 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 4957667328 bytes = 4841472.00k).
star: Total time 983.759sec (4921 kBytes/sec)



Is it normal for fifo to be 22 times empty and 35 times full?
My comp is SuSE 9.3 prof on Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB RAM on soft RAID 1 
(mirroring) 2 disks + HP tape drive StorageWorks 72i DAT ( C7438A 
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dat72/index.html attached to 
http://www.koutech.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=136 scsi controller). My 
DAT have 8MB buffer so I am using bs=8m.

I noticed that tape LED sometimes stops blinking for few seconds than starts 
blinking again.
Do I have problem with FIFO?

Zoran