thomasmoelhave/tpie — comment on commit e62e1ff50ccf3dcbb33f028bd9c67569436ead48
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By thomasmoelhave:

.That is an interesting result (I'm assuming the machine was "grits", not "grids"?)

I'm sure you've already thinking about this, but:
Were you using the local disks, or a RAID connected to grits? Do similar systems have the same performance profile, does windows?