[VPM] disk io Read stress

[Jer A]

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

}

thanks in advance for your input.

-Jer A.

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