Re: need better I/O scheduler for bulk file serving

From: Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 22:51:20 EST

it sounds like it's just slow disk. our redhat mirror held steady at
about 89Mb/s during the rh9 release. using 2.4.18 384MB of ram and a
4x120GB sw raid5 stripe with 64k block size.

joelja

On Sun, 18 May 2003, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> Felix von Leitner wrote:
>
> > When three people are downloading different images (my server "only" has
> > 512 MB RAM, so it can't hold even one of the images in memory) at the
> > same time, the bandwidth utilization goes down to 6 MB/sec on my fast
> > ethernet NIC. The hard disk appears to be busy seeking.
>
> Try RAID1.
>
>
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