Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the
> Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM
> being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing
> or understanding something not entirely right.
I suggest that you google a bit on how to do fileystem benchmarks
first, then try it and report back if something is still odd. There
are many ways but "dd" is not the way unless you really dig through
the sync flags and understand what they do. I normally use "fio" but
it's not very friendly (so it suits me).
However, I just recently put a fast NVMe SSD in an older server with
(lots) of DDR3 ECC RAM. The RAM bandwidth for one node/CPU is about
10-12 GB/s, and the SSD bandwidth is nearing 2 GB/s for most loads.
That's getting close to your figures!
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