Whoops, I accidentally sent this response just to Alessandro: "Why would you say that the problem is almost certainly due to flash storage? It seems a lot more likely to me that there's a bug in either Oracle or Linux where requests get retransmitted and the originals hang around." On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Alessandro Vercelli <alever22@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maybe the debate abount pros and cons of flash/SSD storage vs magnetic > hard drives has been taken thousands of times without a winner, but I > personally would use a non-magnetic disk only for os filesystems (and being > compelled to use flash storage), first of all because of performance > degradation. > In the specific situation, I'm almost certain the problem is due to flash > storage. >