On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:

On 09/04/99 17:00:02 you wrote:

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Not sure about the theoretical case but here's some stats from a system of heavily tuned Apache web servers running Linux 2.0 (NFS V2) mounting a NetApp for all content. It's only serving plain content - no scripts.

Average NFS operations per url is 7.96.

Why no writes? Do you not keep your log file(s) on the same filer? And what about when you update content?

Log files are kept elsewhere - NetApp disk storage is too expensive to use for things that don't need it. Updates are done by a separate cluster of servers and the figures above were generated for a single host talking to the NetApp (nfsstat -h a.b.c.d). Giving stats collected that way should have prevented the stats being blurred by other data and thus make them more useful to beepy.

Steve Clarke