Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote:

> In AHCI mode, you might be able to use ordered tags or "force unit access"
> (does SATA have this concept per command?) to force individual transactions
> or series of transactions out, rather than flushing out all the data every
> time just to get the metadata into the journal on-disk.  But that would
> take some work on our ATA subsystem.

On another machine, I already had performance problems with SATA
controllers in IDE emulation mode (recognized as piixide), which
disapeared when selecting AHCI mode in the BIOS (turning it to be
recognized as ahcisata)

I will report on this as soon as the server will be idle enough to be
rebooted.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
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