Re: ioWait brown out

Matthew Bowie <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:36:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.nmlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> What might be different about my workstations?
> (I have tried three of them)

File server might be using faster disks or disks with write cache
enabled.  I *believe* that a sync will just force the data out of the
OS cache to the drive, but if it has write caching enabled then it may
not actually force it to the platter, but not sure about this.

Is the fileserver using the same filesystem as the workstations?

Matthew Bowie
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