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Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:35:43 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: need better I/O scheduler for bulk file serving
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
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Felix von Leitner wrote:

> When three people are downloading different images (my server "only" has
> 512 MB RAM, so it can't hold even one of the images in memory) at the
> same time, the bandwidth utilization goes down to 6 MB/sec on my fast
> ethernet NIC.  The hard disk appears to be busy seeking.

  Try RAID1.