On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO, that means that in the much smaller cards, going ONE way or the other was kinda the way to go, but with much larger cards, there should be plenty of room for both.
Agreed. On the 512mb's we didn't see any decrease in metadata hits when enabling normal blocks.
I don't know if this indicated a preference of metadata over normal block, or just a natural function of cache usage.
Efficacy of lopri remains very workload dependent, but I haven't seen a case where disabling normal was beneficial with the larger caches.