On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, randall <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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090421/2d8e917d/attachment-0001.htm>
