Well anecdotally, it wasn't oscillating like that in earlier phases. I'll do p4 obliterate and start over. I mean svn obliterate. Err :-P
> > In fact it might be. A full filesystem may have a harder time finding > contiguous empty space, which may translate to more separate > (non-contiguous) writes for the same amount of data, which will have a > measurable effect even on an SSD where seek time is effectively zero, > but IOPS are not free. >