On 14 Jan 2011, at 18:58, Jacob Shucart wrote: > This kind of thing is fine on local disks, but when you're talking about a > distributed filesystem the network latency starts to add up since 1 > request to the web server results in a bunch of file requests. I think the main objection is that it takes a huge amount of network latency to explain a > 1,500% overhead with only 2 machines. On 14 Jan 2011, at 15:20, Joe Landman wrote: > MB size or larger So does gluster become faster abruptly when file sizes cross some threshold? Or are average speeds are proportional to file size? Would be good to see a wider spread of values on benchmarks of throughput vs file size for the same overall volume (like Max's data but with more intermediate values) Marcus
