Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 04:45:57 EST


On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:56:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > > reads dominate writes in almost all workloads, thats common wisdom. Why
> > > write if nobody reads the data? And while web servers are mostly read only
> > > data, they can write data as well, see POST and PUT. The fact that
> > > incoming writes are hard should not let you distract from the fact that
> > > reads are also extremely important.
> >
> > Web servers don't do writes, unless a CGI script is running somewhere
> > or some Java or Perl or something, then this stuff goes through a
> > wrapper, which is slow, or did I miss something.
>
> yes, you missed TUX modules.
>

Great. I can load a TUX module and use it with my T1 line. If I could
spare an extra $100,000/month, perhaps I can lease an SDM-172 or TAT-8, or
even an OC-172 then I would be able to take advantage of it in the real
world.

Jeff

> Ingo
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