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> 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.
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