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.