Classic running out of memory... huh? what? <long>

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM, <bruce.labitt at autoliv.com> wrote:
> > Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote on 06/11/2009 12:30:16 PM:
> >>   Another trick I've used when dealing with massive amounts of data is
> >> to use 'fast' media, aka, flash instead of a hard drive.  Memory
> >> mapping to this sort of media worked well for me.
> > I would love to run a fast drive.  However, all I have available is NFS
> on
> > gbit e-net.  My sustained file write rate is ~45MiB/sec.  (377.5e6
> > bits/sec)
> > That sounds moderately ok until one realizes the file size (one chunk) is
> > ~4.5GiB.
>
>   You don't have physical access to the machine?  Even a USB can give
> better performance then that.
>

Does it?  USB 2.0 is 480 mbits/s which is probably close to 48 MB/s.
45 MB/s on gigabit ethernet isn't too bad.
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