Am 31/03/10 01:58, schrieb john:
> Hi David et al,
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David Burgess<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>
>> One SSD to rule them all. You could keep /home on a platter if you
>> need a lot of space for it.
>>
>
> For context I have 16 Gig's of of RAM and 4 Cores ~3.Ghz.
>
> Are  SSD write times comparable with SAS? I wasn't aware of that. I'll
> take a look.
>
> Here's what iostat told me during one recent bit of misery. When I see
> nearly 30K Blks_wrtn/s is it
> reasonable to conclude that 30K * 4092 (ext 3 blk size) 122.8 m bytes
> sec? That seems pretty high. Am I crazy?

A block in iostat is 512 Bytes [1] - so you have 15MB/s, that seem 
reasonable.

I wonder what is doing all those writes. The browser disk cache? If you 
don't want to buy new hardware, it might be worth trying to disable it, 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Firefox3Optimize

Jakob

[1] From man iostat

>               Blk_read/s
>                      Indicate   the  amount  of  data  read  from  the  device
>                      expressed in a number of blocks per  second.  Blocks  are
>                      equivalent  to  sectors  with  kernels  2.4 and later and
>                      therefore have a size of 512 bytes. With older kernels, a
>                      block is of indeterminate size.
>
>               Blk_wrtn/s
>                      Indicate  the  amount  of  data  written  to  the  device
>                      expressed in a number of blocks per second.


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