Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bandwidth Allocations under CFQ I/O Scheduler | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:42:24 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 14:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jakob Oestergaard: > iops/sec is what you get from your disks. In real world scenarios. It's > no more magic than the real world, and no harder to understand than real > world disks. Although I admit real-world disks can be a bitch at times ;)
Even iops/sec is very vague and arbitary. If your disk happens to be retrying a sector or doing a cleaning pass or any other housekeeping or vibration damping and so on you'll get very different numbers.
Bandwidth is completely silly in this context, iops/sec is merely hopeless 8)
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