Re: performance on new linux box

From: David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: performance on new linux box
Date: 2010-07-08 19:50:52
Message-ID: 4C362C1C.7060509@boreham.org
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On 7/8/2010 1:47 PM, Ryan Wexler wrote:
> Thanks for the explanations that makes things clearer. It still
> amazes me that it would account for a 5x change in IO.

The buffering allows decoupling of the write rate from the disk rotation
speed.
Disks don't spin that fast, at least not relative to the speed the CPU
is running at.

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