Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 04:49:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 04:49:30 -0500 Received: from vger.timpanogas.org ([207.109.151.240]:22790 "EHLO vger.timpanogas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 04:49:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:45:57 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! Message-ID: <20001030024557.D20102@vger.timpanogas.org> In-Reply-To: <20001030023339.A20102@vger.timpanogas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:56:06AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:56:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > 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. > Great. I can load a TUX module and use it with my T1 line. If I could spare an extra $100,000/month, perhaps I can lease an SDM-172 or TAT-8, or even an OC-172 then I would be able to take advantage of it in the real world. Jeff > Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/