Cluster update
KRFinch at dstsystems.com
KRFinch at dstsystems.com
Wed Dec 4 15:50:36 CST 2002
FWIW, you actually get marginally better performance with a hub than you do
with a switch if you have fewer than about 10 PC's. With few hosts, the
switching actually slows things down. We tested it back when I was working
as a DBA because we would often stick our application server and database
server on an isolated LAN with each other to handle the data query traffic,
and a hub was always faster when there were only a couple of systems on it.
My $0.02.
- Kevin
"Jonathan Hale"
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12/03/2002 07:49 PM
> Steinkuhler, the 48-port hub donated by David Nicol,
Really, for adequate performance, we need a switched environment...
My suggestion for what to do with the cluster: Come up with an
algorithm/matrix for determining how long it would take a thousand
monkeys pounding on typewriters to synchronously type "the entire works
of Shakespeare", write a proposal for a federal grant, test it on the
Linux cluster, and use the proceeds to benefit some of the other
worthwhile projects we have previously discussed. (Don't laugh--I heard
that someone recently got a grant to study how mermaids would procreate
if they existed)...
You gonna be at the meeting tomorrow night?
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