Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:15:14 +0545 | From | "Manish Regmi" <> | Subject | Re: Linux disk performance. |
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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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