Re: Linux disk performance.

["Manish Regmi" <regmi.manish@gmail.com>]

On 12/22/06, Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli <chbhanukalyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am assuming that your program is not seeking inbetween writes.
>
> Try disabling the Disk Cache, now-a-days some disks can have as much
> as 8MB write cache. so the disk might be buffering as much as it can,
> and trying to write only when it can no longer buffer. Since you have
> an app which continously write copious amounts of data, in order,
> disabling write cache might make some sense.
>

Thanks  for the suggestion but the performance was terrible when write
cache was disabled.

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