On 9 May 2012, at 11:35, Arnold Krille wrote: > So while > reading big files from local fuse-mount is fast, reading many small files still > has the network-penalty of any distributed and/or replicated system. That's fair, however network latency shouldn't have *that* big an effect - memcached is all about the network, yet it has no trouble sustaining > 100k requests/sec per node. I even get similar performance using na?vely-replicated sharedance which does hit disk and talks to multiple nodes. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ UK info at hand CRM solutions marcus at synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/