Sean Davis wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, randall <randall at songshu.org > <mailto:randall at songshu.org>> wrote: > > dear all, > > second post ;) > > another question here, also in most examples i noticed the > infiniband or 10 GigE recommendation, does this really do any good > for the individual server connection? > another assumption on my side was that 1 individual server can > never saturate a full gigabit link due to the disk throughput > limitation, (maybe a few 100 MBps at most) > > > so if every server has a 1 Gigabit connection to a switch which in > turn has a 10 GigE uplink it would not be a bottleneck (as long as > there are not too many servers sharing the 10 GigE uplink) > > correct? > > > If one server has multiple disks (or RAIDS) and each is being read > simultaneously, it is certainly possible to saturate a single GigE > connection under some conditions. > > Sean > > thnx, that confirms my suspicion then, meaning it would be overkill to use more then a gigabit link considering i never use the kind of hardware that would be able to match these numbers, you're right, i should have been more precise about what was assumed. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts
