From: "Dan Fitzgerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tuning file sizes is vitally important. If you have an average item size of, say, 1700 bytes, and a sep of 1, then even if you pick a very good modulus, it will take 4 disk reads to retrieve the data. If you have a bad modulus on top of that, like 101 when you need 10007, it will take around 400 disk reads to retrieve each item. You and your users will notice this. Additionally, as mentioned earlier, this exposes you to a greater risk of file corruption. If you have 1000 links to overflow in a file, you are 1000 times as likely to get a bad link than someone who has 1 link. And that's before you start thinking about how you're affecting MTBF by artificially hammering your disks that way.
I thought 500-byte frames were a thing of the past. Is anyone still using them? Stewart -- Stewart Leicester | JenSoft Technologies, LLC "Per Ardua Ad Astra" | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
