Server becomes io-bound on no disk writes.

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 21:25 -0700, William King wrote: 
> compdoc,
> 
> I am trying to find support to track down the cause of the spurious disk 
> writes that force the server into an io-bound state. Now is not the time 
> to be doing hardware benchmarks. Ask me again when the issue is resolved 
> and I would glad to provide such benchmarks.

Maybe he had a line of thinking towards your problem, and checking
through-put was a part of his winnowing through to the problem. Ric
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