On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:39 -0500, Chris Lewis wrote: > I'll amplify what Matt said - simple file I/O (eg: queue/file) is > apparently not a problem, and will work well at very high volumes (many
I recently found a linus interview, in which he claims that linux does have really good file system performance now. Much better (~ 5-10x better) than windows and some BSD systems even without using Reiser3/4. Sun and Apple are much more competitive, iirc. I believe the context was a question about linux versus FreeBSD. So I think the utility of async per file I/O probably depends a bit on what you are running. > millions per day per server). Making those operations async will only > make a marginal difference except at extremely high loads. Or old hardware ;-) ... -- --gh
