> exactly this is a point: my disk can do 5mb/s with almost random seeks,
> and linux indeed reads 5mb/s from it. but the userpsace process doing
> read() only ever sees 2mb/s because the kernel throes away all the nice
> pages.
Which means the VM in the relevant kernel is probably crap or your working
set exceeds ram.
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