Re: SMP scalability goal

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:27 -0600, Duane Wessels wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Alex Rousskov wrote:
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> > I do not think it is realistic to expect nearly linear scale (close to
> > 100% and 200% increase in performance), especially for the first
> > implementation.
>
> As you know, disk is usually the bottleneck. So I think your goals
> and expectations should state whether disk caching is involved or
> not. Assuming disk caching is involved, maybe even state what
> storage type and a typical hit ratio.

Very good point. I should have said that for this particular question
let's consider the "pure" case of no caching (neither disk nor memory).

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Thu Apr 24 2008 - 16:32:24 MDT