On 08/10/2011 01:41 PM, Joey McDonald wrote: > An order of magnitude slower with replication. What's going on I wonder? > Thanks for any suggestions. You are dealing with contention for Gigabit bandwidth. Replication will do that, and will be pronounced over 1GbE. Much less of an issue over 10GbE or Infiniband. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615