“The real question is what do you expect from the disk subsystem?”
Arguably the real question is what do you need from the disk subsystem.
Many applications will run fine with 50ms random IOs. Sure, your big batchy
operations may take a few hours but so what? If your application is using
sensible queries with sensible supporting indexes then your average user
call will be just fine, especially when you remember that you have caches
everywhere to prevent these IOs.
SLOB is very good at finding the breaking point of your storage. Your
application may be no where near as “good”.
Hope that helps,
Andrew
