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Don’t shout at your hard disks!

Sun engineer Brendan Gregg has made an interesting discovery, posted on his blog (with youtube attachment of course) at http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency, that disks suffer high I/O latency when subjected to vocal outbursts.

Something to bear in mind the next time your server has you in a fit of rage :)

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