From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Oct 5 07:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15987 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA15969 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 11966 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1998 14:39:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.3) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 5 Oct 1998 14:39:56 -0000 Message-ID: <3618DA15.46329AA1@pipeline.ch> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:39:17 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer CC: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching References: <22657.907553262@gjp.erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Palmer 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 > > I think that is very dependant on the server type. PC NetWare fileservers > probably have very different access patterns to (say) a web server or a mail > server. Let alone a news server. Is there a way to gather such statistics on FreeBSD? I'd like to run it on all my boxes (and others) to get representative figures. After that we can discuss optimizations. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message