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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by chungy on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:21PM (#14944480)
Spinning platter. ZFS with compression is probably helping that.
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by panic on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:24PM (#14944490)
Your OS is probably caching the file at the virtual memory layer, so it doesn't even have to hit the filesystem at all.
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by sillysaurus3 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:07PM (#14944824)
A good lesson not to try to guess where the bottlenecks in a program will be. :)
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by wereHamster on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:05AM (#14945825)
mount -o sync :)
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