[Info-vax] How do I assign a disk to a CPU?
Stephen Hoffman
seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Sat Oct 17 11:42:09 EDT 2020
On 2020-10-17 09:26:33 +0000, Richard Brodie said:
> On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 04:47:44 UTC+1, Edgar Ulloa wrote:
>
>> I really thought that using another cpu would have a better performance
>> on the disk that has more io.
>
> It might. It's just that levelling out the interrupt load between CPUs
> doesn't really help until the primary is maxed out servicing I/O.
A fast HDD does ~150 to ~200 IOPS.
A recent SSD does ~100,000, and some models variously more.
Sometimes much more.
There can be activity clogging the primary.
But that's probably not (strictly) HDD interrupt activity.
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