On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Hamilton Feltman <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Ok, that clarifies the issue drastically. One thing to check is possibly
> something else hitting the disk, like spotlight. Anything else touching the
> disk at that seekrate, and the bandwidth is destroyed. You can disable
> spotlight for that drive (System preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy). If
> it’s not spotlight, a utility called fseventer will show system wide file
> access, but it doesn’t look like mavericks is supported yet. But there has
> got to be a command line util that can watch fsevent.
>

we used dtrace to track all file access at both the disk level and hfs+
level. we never saw any patterns of other file access that would explain
the slow down.

i'll try the F_RDAHEAD trick tomorrow when i get the mini up and running.
sadly, our code *does* assume that we have a reasonable sane OS that will
do sensible read-ahead for us, but we've never believed that we were
testing a system that didn't do that :)
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