Re: Interesting observation

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@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.