Re: [resent PATCH] Re: very slow parallel read performance

Rik van Riel
2001-08-25T15:51:21Z

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> > True, it's just an issue of performance and heavily used
> > servers falling over under load, nothing as serious as
> > data corruption or system instability.
>
> If your server is falling over under load, this is not the reason.

I bet your opinion will be changed the moment you see a system
get close to falling over exactly because of this.

Remember NL.linux.org a few weeks back, where a difference of
10 FTP users more or less was the difference between a system
load of 3 and a system load of 250 ? ;)

regards,

Rik
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