Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:44:50 +0200 | From | Jakob Oestergaard <> | Subject | Re: Bandwidth Allocations under CFQ I/O Scheduler |
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:42:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
True.
> > Bandwidth is completely silly in this context, iops/sec is merely > hopeless 8)
Thanks Alan - I feel much better now :)
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/ jakob
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