RE: gettimeofday calls

2003-01-28 Thread MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
I had a couple of inputs here : I was talking to our specweb person, and he had the following views : 1. most modern day os'es cache the files, and not do a disk io for every single file request. (duh !!.) 2. when doing writes, do a 64M block writes, instead of write to disk every time.. (Lazy wri

Re: gettimeofday calls

2003-01-28 Thread Greg Ames
Greg Ames wrote: Bill Stoddard wrote: Why not use mod_file_cache? On my wimpy 200MHz server, the SPEC file_set contains 5760 files and uses .8G of disk. On more modern servers, the size of the file_set goes up in proportion to the number of conforming connections you hope to push thru it, so