Hi.
> Depends. What hardware? How much hardware? Is the cluster under load? > What does your I/O load look like? As a rule of thumb, you'll probably > expect very close to hardware speed. > Standard Xeon dual cpu, quad core servers, 4 GB RAM. The DataNodes also do some processing, with usual loads about ~4 (from 8 recommended). The IO load is linear, there are almost no write or read peaks. By close to hardware speed, you mean results very near the results I get via iozone? Thanks.
