well, increasing num_PGs to 4096 helped. but not enough
now getting
WRITE: bw=6598MiB/s (6918MB/s), 217MiB/s-708MiB/s (228MB/s-743MB/s), io=476GiB (511GB), run=73787-73845msec
Disk stats (read/write):
dm-0: ios=0/33834, merge=0/0, ticks=0/12202032, in_queue=12202030, util=99.77%...