LOAD BALANCING OF READ/WRITE ACCESSES ON A SINGLE HOST DEVICE

Methods and systems are directed to a hybrid multi-thread/multi-process model to service a large number of network requests in network storage applications and systems. The process utilizes defined parameters of target session number, maximum session number, and maximum process number to determine an optimum load balance for read/write operations of a disk access session on a single storage node. This helps to achieve higher performance when using the single node to read or write a large number of separate and parallel data streams, and represents a marked improvement over current methods that multiplex the multiple data streams or use multiple I/O processes to write each data stream.