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blasdel on Aug 23, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to find per-process I/O statistics on Linux

...and cheap SSDs are pathologically bad at random writes -- at least an order of magnitude worse than an mediocre hard drive on average, with regular latency spikes of several seconds!

wmf on Aug 23, 2009 [–]

When measured in $/IOPS, even good SSDs are cheap. I think the real problem is the lack of caching software (but I would think that).

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