[wplug] disk:ram ratios

Brian Medley bpmedley at 4321.tv
Fri Nov 16 20:36:53 EST 2001


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:01:39PM -0500, James O'Kane wrote:

> Does anyone know of a website where they talk about good disk to ram
> ratios? I have a file server that is almost constantly at a load of 6-9.
> My guess is the machine doesn't have enough ram for disk buffers. Based

what os/architecture is it?

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