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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:29:39 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Hinrich Eilts <eilts@tor.muc.de>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching
Message-ID:  <199810121329.GAA09765@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Hinrich Eilts <eilts@tor.muc.de> "Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching" (Oct  4,  4:00pm)

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On Oct 4,  4:00pm, Hinrich Eilts wrote:
} Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching
} > 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.

I've actually seen some figures quoted for this, but darned if I can
figure out where.  The numbers I saw showed writes dominating the
mix on the other side of the buffer cache.  Obviously this will depend
on the workload, and I would expect that softupdates would further
perturb the numbers.

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