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SubjectRe: Bandwidth Allocations under CFQ I/O Scheduler
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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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