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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

It seemed to have several set speeds, and when pushing hard it would try a faster speed for a couple of seconds, then a faster one, until it found the fastest it could operate (presumably it tries faster speeds until it begins to get sector-ECC errors). Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

It seemed to have several set speeds, and when pushing hard it would try a faster speed for a couple of seconds, then a faster one, until it found the fastest it could operate (presumably it tries faster speeds until it begins to get sector-ECC errors). I could hear it spin faster. Hit Ctrl-C to end. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

It seemed to have several set speeds, and when pushing hard it would try a faster speed for a couple of seconds, then a faster one, until it found the fastest it could operate (presumably it tries faster speeds until it begins to get sector-ECC errors). Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. Action Description Manual Checkpoint – Target Specified I/O latency target set to ​​ the default ​​ of ​​ 20ms.

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