On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote: >> Sorry my servers are on gigabit links. >> How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s? > > Overhead. > >> If it's correct on a gigabit link I would have a rate transfer of 90MB/s > > You will probably get less than that if you do not use jumbo frames. > >> and the transfer rate of the sata disks are 3Gb/s(375MB/s). > > No way are your SATA drives that fast. More likely 1/4 to 1/3 of that > speed unless all servers are using high end SSDs.
That. Always remember that the data transfer rates specified on disk interfaces are the maximum burst transfer rate FROM a full disk cache or TO an empty one. The actual sustained rates at which the physical mechanism can read or write data to and from the platters are FAR lower. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users