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How to prioritize SSD page cache eviction over HDD with slower speed?
I have a large slow HDD and a small fast SSD. This is about reads not RAID. My desktop grinds to a near-halt when switching back to Firefox or man pages after (re/un)-loading 12+ GiB of Linux kernel ...
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Disable writeback cache throttling - tuning vm.dirty_ratio
I have a workload with extremely high write burst rates for short periods of times. The target disks are rather slow, but I have plenty of RAM and very tolerant to instantaneous data loss. I've ...
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How to set up ZFS with ZIL and L2ARC SSD?
I have been considering bcache and flashcache. However my friend suggested me something called ZFS. In fact it says that formating disk with ZFS can actually do the exact same thing without kernel ...
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