much iowait - how to reduce?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:11:55PM +0200, Edo Frederix wrote:

> The thing is that I have some files that I publish on the website. These 
> files are about 3mb large. A typical size of a response would probably be 
> around 30kb. On my server I'm running with 4GB memory, so there is free 
> memory enough to run all buffers from the memory. I experienced that iowait 
> would drop if I increased the number of buffers.
> 
> Given this info, what would you recommend?

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile


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