Re: file system performance in linux

[Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 10/3/08, pradeepkumar soman <pradeep2481@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I just want to know the factors on which the file system
> >     read depends
>
> I suspect that is way too general of a question, but read performance
> is impacted by:
<snip>

Not to mention location on the disk (at least in the case of rotating 
media) and the size of the requests when reading (usually there's some 
optimum size which is neither the largest nor smallest possible) and 
level of concurrency...

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