29 Jan
2014
29 Jan
'14
10:15 p.m.
On 01/29/2014 01:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
How so, unless you are adding disk heads to the mix or localizing activity during your test?
Just ran into this: did a grep on what seemed to be a lightly loaded server, load average suddenly spiked unexpectedly. Turns out that it was performing over 130 write ops/second on a 7200 RPM drive! Partitioning data would into partitions would have no effect in this case.