On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:54:58PM -0800, David Burry wrote: > interesting... so then why did using mod_file_cache to specify caching a > couple dozen known-most-often-accessed files decrease disk io significantly? > I'll try the test you mention next time I get a chance.
Out of curiosity, what are your mount options? Are atime updates enabled? Try mounting noatime. (man mount_ufs) Are disk quotas enabled? Try disabling them if they are not needed. (man quotaoff) If you have memory to burn, you can try creating a huge tmpfs partition in memory and copying the entire document repository there. (man tmpfs; man mount_tmpfs) (man mount_cachefs; man cfsadmin) What sort of resource limits are on the httpd or apache user (under which the webserver runs)? (man ulimit) Think you might be bumping into any arbitrary limits? What about on the system level (man sysdef) Run 'sysdef' and look for the "Tunable Parameters" section. Are you using sac (man sac) and what environment is it setting? (I'm by no means an expert on Solaris, but I hope this helps) Aha! Try this link: http://ultra.litpixel.com:84/articles/ftat/frameset.html Fun with noatime, logging, and forcedirectio options. -Glenn
