AW: AW: [OpenAFS] Severe Performance Issue with SCSI!

[Helge Bahmann]

What filesystem are you using on the server? From your description it
appears that the hard disks are seeking like mad to honour the
transaction integrity of the filesystem under synchronous writes; if it is
ext3, then data=journal is your friend for small files

It appears that your IDE disks are running with write caches enabled and
are ignoring cache flush commands, allowing them to reorder and batch
writes

Regards
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Helge Bahmann <bahmann@math.tu-freiberg.de>             /| \__
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