All,
I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I
am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to
understand how long my flash is likely to last. I have two vmstat -d
information on the flash
2011-01-31 00:35
disk- reads
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> All,
>
> I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I
> am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to
> understand how long my flash is likely to last.
[..]
> Note that the kernel writes do n
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> All,
>
> I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I
> am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to
> understand how long my flash is likely to last.
[..]
> Note that the kernel writes d
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-)
>
> Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be
> translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that
> these writes will be in uni
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-)
>
> Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be
> translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that
> these writes will be in u
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
[...]
> So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under "total" column
> supposed to be the number of IOs
> issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors?
"man vmstat" says 'total' is "Total writes completed successf
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
[...]
> So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under "total" column
> supposed to be the number of IOs
> issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors?
"man vmstat" says 'total' is "Total writes completed succe
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