Re: I've ran out of ideas

From: Aaron Glenn (aaron.glenn_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/19/04

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    To: Luke <lukem@cse.unsw.edu.au>
    
    

    On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:16:51 +1100 (EST), Luke <lukem@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
    > Increasing the block size of the disk need not imply that the application
    > is issuing larger reads.

    Hmm, true.

    > I have not suggested that you increase the blocksize further. Please read
    > the above points again.
    >
    > As Sean pointed out, if your web server supports sendfile then that would
    > be a good option.

    Indeed I misread your email. I do have some sort optimized thttpd
    package that was sent to me off list. I'll try that out in a few
    minutes here. I'm also searching for the patch on arch@ that Sean
    mentioned.

    > Your recent post which showed poor performance from /dev/zero does bring
    > the theory that your disk is the bottleneck into question, however you may
    > still find it is worth trying the above suggestions.

    I neglected to mention those numbers were taken while pushing 45Mbps
    out the network. If you add them up you get 93Mbps.

    aaron.glenn
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