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Eric Anderson wrote:

> Maybe this should be tried with md* devices just to remove the network
> component from this mix.

Network was introduced here to do bandwidth limiting so to get
predictable results, but you're right - network could, at least in
theory, be the issue here.

I remember trying to do such a benchmark with USB sticks, which also
have high latency, and getting similar scaling problems because the
requests were split to small blocks.


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