On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:21:58PM +0100,
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is to stream >10 different files out to
> >50 different clients. The files are >=1GB in size, and the
> clients are not getting the files simultanous, so caching
> doesn't help unless I get some cool 64GB memory... Since the
> files are read simultanous, I need some way to schedule this
> nicely
So... would too much time spent seeking from blocks in one
streamed file to blocks in another to blocks in another be the
problem? Would it (theoretically, at least) be better to have
>10 different disks/arrays, one for each file being streamed, so
that the array doesn't have to jump all over the place seeking
blocks from different files?
Andrew Klaassen
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