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Valve's Making Everyone Else Look Bad - WAN Show February 18, 2022

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Mac OS X - Not Flushing Gets You Two Thousand

F sink command, which is supposed to tell the driver to flush everything out from cashes to the main storage, doesn't do that on macoes. Instead, it only flushes current rights to the drive, leaving cashed data in volatile memory. If you're not flushing, you get forty thousand, iops. And if you are, you get 40 six wo hops. On an x 86 laptop plus a sam sung eight 60 evo, 500 gig sata s s d, not flushing is five thousand. Flushing is a hundred forty three. Either writing your files is excruciatingly slow, or you could lose even a file you saved five minutes ago to a power

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