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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:24:08 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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   • Attie Grande

   @attie Updates are seek-heavy. 😢

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     Attie Grande (attie@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:24:09 JST Attie Grande

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     ... for context, the root disks in systems has done 150 KiB of read, and ~1 GiB of writes in the last 24 hours.

     The whole update is covered by 405 MiB of read, and 2.9 GiB of write... 😴

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     Attie Grande (attie@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:24:12 JST Attie Grande

     I have a couple of Linux systems that are on spinning disks... and I cannot convey how incredibly slow they are at "basic" tasks like system updates.

     It's "just leave it running" levels of slow, in a world where I've got used to not leaving things like that because the context switching isn't worth it.

     [there is zero reason for these systems to have "good" root storage, they're off-site backup nodes, and have decent big storage instead]