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sirjee
·vorig jaar·discuss
Usually Google applications uses high level network storage services like collosus, BigTable or spanner and these high level services are backed by dedicated storage appliances where they bypass the kernel for SSDs and use direct block IO for slow disks. For network, they are moving towards userspace network [1].

[1] https://research.google/pubs/snap-a-microkernel-approach-to-...
sirjee
·vorig jaar·discuss
BTW company-1 == Google and company-2 == FB/Meta.

In addition, Google has completely removed local storage from their servers, so there is no disk I/O at all.
sirjee
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Linux have madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).