22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
10:14 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 23:12 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I don't have any evidence, but my logic goes like: Mail is written to disk once. Most users use a single client, which downloads the message once. Or maybe they're using webmail, and they read the same message approximately once (or maybe max. 1.1 times). In both cases read:write is about 1:1.
Also if message is read close to after it was read, it's already in cache and won't have to be read from disk. In those cases read:write might be close to 0:1..