"Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array"

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Brendan Gregg of Sun's Fishworks lab has an interesting video demo up at YouTube demonstrating just how bad vibes, if expressed with sufficient volume in front of a rack full of disks, can cause a spike in disk latency. White noise, evidently, doesn't do them much harm.
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So remember, no matter how much your boss ticks you off, don't think it's safe any more to go into the server room and blow your stack!
 
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