Thanks Bryan, really appreciate you letting us know the outcome. I'm sure it will be useful to others.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Bryan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll follow up on this in case it is useful to anyone. It seems I was > network I/O limited. The switch I was using was in managed mode which > decreased throughput to 1gbit/sec within the switch, not just on the wire. > So with replication set to 2, throughput was about half of the theoretical > max on a given box (client -> switch -> datanode 1 -> switch -> datanode > 2). It was an eye opener that I was network I/O limited. I will probably > move to a 10gbit/sec switch and/or use bonded NICs. > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
