On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:
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> More importantly when you run out of I/O bandwidth "bad things" tend to
> happen very quickly; the degradation of performance when you hit the IO wall
> is extreme to the point of being essentially a "zeropoint event."
Or as I like to put it IO bandwidth has sharp knees.
