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rezonant ◴[23 Oct 25 22:34 UTC] No.45688230[source]▶

But is /dev/null web scale?

epistasis ◴[23 Oct 25 22:38 UTC] No.45688273[source]▶

Yes, /dev/null can even power sites like zombo.com

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What’s the I/O throughput of /dev/null ?

epistasis ◴[23 Oct 25 22:45 UTC] No.45688365[source]▶

Single client, I'm getting ~5GB/s, both on an 8-year-old intel server, and on my M1 ARM chip.

However with a single server, it doesn't perfectly linearly scale with multiple clients. I'm getting

1 client: 5GB/s

2 clients: 8GB/s

3 client: 8.7GB/s

1. dinkelberg ◴[23 Oct 25 22:56 UTC] No.45688477[source]▶

How did you measure this? Do you know that /dev/null is the limiting factor, or could it be the data source that is limiting?

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database