Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 May 2005 23:38:32 +0200 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) |
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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:21:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >FreeBSD used these barriers (FLUSH CACHE command) long time ago. > > > >There are rumors that some disks ignore FLUSH CACHE command just to > > get higher benchmarks in Windows. But I haven't heart of any proof. > > Does anybody know, what companies fake this command? > > > >From a story I read elsewhere just a few days ago, this problem is > virtually universal even in the umpty-bucks 15,000 rpm scsi server > drives. It appears that this is just another way to crank up the > numbers and make each drive seem faster than its competition.
Probably you talking about this: http://www.livejournal.com/~brad/2116715.html It has hit Slashdot yesterday.
-- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl "God is more forgiving."
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