Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:

How much can that matter?  Reads are going to be cached in main RAM anyway - which is pretty cheap these days.

--    Les Mikesell     lesmikesell@gmail.com _______________________________________________

Yes, but I suppose it all depends on the needs of the server in question :)

In our case, with web servers, reads (i.e. opening websites, downloading content) far outweighs writes (which are basically logs, file uploads, and sessions being written to disk.

In case of forums (we have many clients with forums) reads & writes are sometimes equal, but even then reads are still more common in our case than writes.