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From: Tristan Plumb <9p-st@imu.li>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help with two small shared file servers
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:47:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2578ef.bc4a5249.rnnX.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afa907c3be69717b86a41caafe955006@coraid.com>

> > > Is 9p suitable for this? How will the 40ms latency affect 9p
> > > operation? (I have 100Mbit).
> >
> > With a strict request/response protocol you will get no more
> > than 64KB once every 80ms so your throughput at best will be
> > 6.55Mbps or about 15 times slower than using HTTP/FTP on
> > 100Mbps link for large files.  [John, what was the link speed
> > for the tests in your thesis?]

> i calculate 1/0.080s/rt * 64*1024 = 819 kbytes/s.  (i think your
> conversion from mbits/s to bytes/s is faulty.)

819 kbyte/s just about than 6.55 Mbps, at 8 bits a byte.

and

64*1024/0.08 * 8 = 6553600

or are you talking about something else entirely?

tristan

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17 10:09 Aram Hăvărneanu
2011-08-17 14:11 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-08-17 14:32   ` John Floren
2011-08-17 15:39   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]   ` <CAL4LZyiEk35Kfq_wezUaEvJWsYX3ONeordrD7sQjFr+45fQiWg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-08-18  5:34     ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-18  5:48       ` John Floren
     [not found]       ` <CAL4LZygoKQZoTvof4F_fBQhxqsQZb2r+FR_nkgf=YbU94WvoBQ@mail.gmail.c>
2011-08-18 13:26         ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-18 14:21           ` Lucio De Re
2011-08-19  8:15           ` cinap_lenrek
2011-08-17 21:00 ` Bakul Shah
2011-08-17 21:19   ` John Floren
2011-08-17 21:22   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-08-18  5:29   ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-18  5:47     ` Tristan Plumb [this message]
2011-08-18  6:25     ` Bakul Shah
2011-08-30 21:40 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
     [not found] <CAEAzY3_Vx8WW1Oumt0t1_Ay6LtpTFFonpwMD+=0DYCM-yxXaeA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-08-17 15:42 ` erik quanstrom

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