7 Nov
2014
7 Nov
'14
01:38
On 2014-11-07 01:57, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/06/2014 04:51 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It uses only one thread and one core, even when having several large disks and dozens of free cpu cores. Thus it can not parallelize writes.
Probably in recognition of the fact that disks have exactly one controller, on on board processor, one arm.
But there are several disks. I have a minimum of 4, sometimes 8. Even with one disk, you may have one thread "thinking" and another actually writing or reading, and another stuck on some wait. Linux is good at that. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)