Re: high load, no bottleneck

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Yes, I run 24 concurent tar -czf as a test.
> But those shouldn't do small synchronous writes, should they?

Depends.  Is the filesystem mounted noatime (or read-only)?  If not,
there are going to be atime updates, and don't all inode updates get
done synchronously?  Or am I misunderstanding something?

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