Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262323AbTESDn1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 23:43:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262324AbTESDn1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 23:43:27 -0400 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:13524 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262323AbTESDn0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2003 23:43:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 20:51:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> cc: Felix von Leitner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: need better I/O scheduler for bulk file serving In-Reply-To: <200305182338_MC3-1-397F-D9FD@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1581 Lines: 41 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. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/