>On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> >> CPU's are not getting much faster. But IO is definitely getting faster. >> It's best to keep ahea d of that curve. > >It seems that per-socket CPU performance is doubling every year. >That seems like faster to me.
I think that I/O isn't getting as fast as CPU is; memory capacity and bandwith and CPUs are getting faster. I/O, not so much. (Apart from the one single step from harddisk to SSD; but note that I/O is limited to standard interfaces and as such it is likely be helddown by requiring a new standard. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss