Re: Interesting observation

["markw-4" <user=5@nabble.blu.org>]

 > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:06:07PM -0400, [hidden email] wrote: 
>> 
>> I have a compressed data source (freedb, netflix, geo), I have a small 
>> extraction program that parses the data and formats the insertion 
>> strings. 
>> Using the insertion strings, I add the data to a database. 
>> 
>> Now, up until the 1g ethernet, it was faster to run the loader and the 
>> database on the same machine. Now that the data transfer is 
>> theoretically 
>> 10 times faster than 100mb, the data transfer (assuming separate 
>> machines) 
>> is no longer larger than the processing time. 
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this is earth shattering news, but it is an interesting 
>> metric. 
> 
> Cycle of reincarnation: about the time 10 Mb/s ethernet became popular, 
> a friend noted that actual throughput via NFS was significantly faster 
> than the disk interfaces he had on the low-end machines.