[VPM] disk io Read stress

Peter Scott Peter at PSDT.com
Thu Jun 28 09:02:10 PDT 2007


At 04:05 AM 6/28/2007, Jer A wrote:
>hello all,
>
>this may not be a perl question
>
>I am writing a random file like daemon, that serves requested files to
>client machines, over tcp/ip.
>
>If I max out the daemon, eg. 100's or 1000's of threaded requests a second,
>which causes more stress to the disk.... long reads or short reads and rests
>(eg. bursts) ? ( this does not consider cpu usage or memory). more than one
>client may be requesting the same file, or they will be requesting different
>files. these files can get very large.
>
>I am trying to let a hd have a longer life, with out alot of admin
>maintainance.
>
>eg.
>   while(1)
>{
>read(datapeace)
>rest
>
>}

This may be of some help:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6376021.stm

Do we have anyone at UVic who would be willing to get us a room for a 
monthly meeting yet?

-- 
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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