On 05/27/2011 11:13 AM, Jon Tegner wrote: > Thanks! > > Would you say that the inefficiencies related to the ram disk would > remove all advantages of using ram instead of hard drives (or could it > still be worth a try)? Depends upon many things. Best thing to do is test. > As for speed, I would think that latency would be the most critical - > but I don't really know, it its the code of a colleague of mine (I was > trying to come up with a replacement of his SMP-machine which is getting > old). Ok. Are they IO bound with small reads/writes, large reads/writes? Gluster is very good for the larger file IO and many simultaneous (large) IOs. -- 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
