Question: Compare the act of reading a file using a single-threaded file server (everything must be done sequentially) vs. reading a file using a multi-threaded file

Compare the act of reading a file using a single-threaded file server (everything must be done sequentially) vs. reading a file using a multi-threaded file server (disk waits can be overlapped by having the server switch to different threads). It takes 10 msec to get a request for work, dispatch it, and complete the rest of the necessary processing if the data are in the disk's block cache. 20% of the time, it requires an additional 40 msec to complete a disk operation, during which time the thread sleeps. How many requests per second can a single-threaded server handle? How many requests per second can a multi-threaded server handle? (Once again, assume that multi-threaded server can overlap disk requests, and there are sufficient cached data in the block cache).

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