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EnhanceIO and Check_MK plugin

by on Jan.01, 2015, under Check MK, Software

A while ago when faced ‘why is my disk slow’ I realized “hej, I have an SSD… let’s use it as cache!”.
Easier said than done, because these days you have tons of options. A quick glance at them shows BCache, DM-Cache, FaceBook’s Flash-Cache or what I went for which is based on Flash-Cache: EnhanceIO. There’s probably more of them, while writing this I ran into this article on LVM cache – sounds interesting too.
Here’s a little comparison between a few of the above options: different ssd to hdd cacheing options on askubuntu.com. (continue reading…)

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