Re: doubt about 99% of the cases if the first byte of the file is cached.

> > If I try to start >50 downloads, only 50 will be served concurrently.
> > The rest will block until there's a free 'slot'. And - yes - I've set
> > max_connect to a far larger number than 50.
> > 
> > Ingo: Any ideas?
> 
> what happens if you set up Apache to serve the same content, does it show
> similar symptoms? I very much suspect that this phenomenon is unrelated to
> TUX. (you already tried a much larger NR_IO_THREADS value, such as 128,
> right?)

I've tried increasing NR_IO_TREADS - yep. And - trying Apache, it's WAY 
worse. Something tells me Apache's _not_ designed to do multiple large 
simultanous non-cached downloads. But - the files are way larger than my 
memory...

I have, however, tried to do standard webserver benchmarking. That shows 
now problems, after some rather nasty errors in the VM was corrected.

I really want to find the source to this problem. All help is appreceated!

thanks

roy

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