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Subject: Re: NFS reads vs. writes
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On 05.01.2016 00:19, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> It is a chunk of an older SSD, that also houses the OS. But it is
>>> usually idle, because executables and libraries are cached in the
>>> abundant RAM. I've seen it do 90+Mb/s (sequential)...
>
> Please be more careful with units (but don't use MiB's; I should killfile
> that).  90 Mbits/s is still slow. 
Mb is megabyte in my book. This is the unit used by `systat -vm', which
I mentioned earlier. 90 megabytes/s is still not at the limit of Gigabit
Ethernet, however, but it is a lot closer to it.

Yours,

    -mi