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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:56:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> > reads dominate writes in almost all workloads, thats common wisdom. Why
> > write if nobody reads the data? And while web servers are mostly read only
> > data, they can write data as well, see POST and PUT. The fact that
> > incoming writes are hard should not let you distract from the fact that
> > reads are also extremely important.
>
> Web servers don't do writes, unless a CGI script is running somewhere
> or some Java or Perl or something, then this stuff goes through a
> wrapper, which is slow, or did I miss something.

yes, you missed TUX modules.

	Ingo

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