I'm not sure that this is possible. We will need to "throttle at the
source" eventually. I can write an application that writes a file at
50Mb per second (try "dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile"), and the disk is
never going to keep up with that.
So working on the "flush to disk" side is good and very important, we
will never be able to ignore the "throttle the writes".
Or am I being stupid?
Roger.
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