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Date:      Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:48:11 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Hinrich Eilts <eilts@tor.muc.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981005104432.2489A-100000@sv01.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199810041400.QAA02453@tor.muc.de>

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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Hinrich Eilts wrote:

> > I can post (once again) the results of a Novell study on server usage
> > patterns.  The 30,000 foot view for a typical server breaks down to:
> > 
> > 	75%	reads
> > 	15%	writes
> > 	8%	directory search operations
> > 	2%	other
> 
> How does this translate to disk usage? I think, VM/buffer cache will
> reduce reads and directory search operations quite a lot.

No. Yes.  The ratio of actual disk writes to disk reads is probably enough
to justify the effort to optimize writes.

Regards,


Mike Hancock


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